Before colonisation, over 250 First Nations languages were spoken in Australia. Now, just over 100 are still in use and 90 per cent are considered "endangered".The online audio library is linked to an interactive mapThat is a problem for many of Australia's Indigenous people, like Taribelang Elder Melinda Holden."Your language describes your country and your culture. That's why it's so important for us.
"We have to protect our languages … for a long time we weren't allowed to speak our languages, and that's how we're in the predicament we're in now," she said.Researchers from the University of Melbourne are also trying to tackle the issue, starting the 50 Words Project, which aims to record 50 everyday words in every Indigenous language possible.
Researcher Rachel Nordlinger said the project is breathing new life into ancient languages, many of which have been dormant for decades. "It's an important part of recognising Indigenous Australians as the first nations of this continent."
English is fine
What a complete waste of time and effort. Will they talk to each other while they’re sitting in the long grass unemployed?
BLM! The insanity of foreign ethnic Europeans, such as the Anglo ScoMos, ruling our lands and us must end. They wouldn't allow such an atrocity in their Traditional Land of Europe with even legal foreign migrant settlers now under scrutiny fearing foreign ethnic Muslim rule!
Perhaps we should also bring back Latin. MakeLatinGreatAgain.
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