What's the Indigenous language of your local area?

Find your location on the map and the language group of that area will appear

Ms Priman went on to graduate with a Bachelor of the Arts in Language and Linguistics and Ms Holden obtained a Diploma in Linguistics and Planning.Ms Holden said that as they were learning, they realised there wasn't somewhere people could to readily access this type of information.So, about seven years ago, they began researching Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages within Queensland."We just started putting together a spreadsheet.

First Languages Australia includes information as people provide it — things such as spelling, and the areas language groups cover.'A great tool'"We wanted to see elders talk about their language and their country," she said.

Whogivesafuck

If you really wanted to preserve Aboriginal languages you'd teach them in schools instead of putting out stupid tokenist articles like this...

English.

Arrernte

German Shepherd 🐕‍🦺

Pidgin English

Bogan

Yobbo

Whatever the middle class acadimia made up.

Woiwurrung

Kaurna

Melbourne CBD - I’m actually not sure🤔

ASRC1 Yugambeh

Victoria Melbourne the Kulin nation has so many languages 38 I think

English.

Woiwurrung

Wadjuk

What's the point in knowing?. Some kind of twisted nostalgia?.

Wow, I gotta say that pretty cool. Bring all the people together! 🙂

We don't give you a billion dollars a year for this crap stop wasting out money you commies.

Hey dardy

Cockney

English

I’m disgusted by the comments on here. You all need to grow tf up. In my area the local language is Noongar of the Noongar Whadjuk people.

Peramangk

Gumbaynggirr

Pizza.

ENGLISH, the only language you can get a JOB in Australia auspol

Which is the indigenous language in which 'giveussumunnieyawitecunt' means 'Howdy Sir good day to you'?

Wish I learnt more about precolonial Australia in school rather than ancient Egypt

Brisbane: Yugara, Turubal

English

English

'Must'? Are we to have border signs so we can pay our respect as we move around? 'These languages determine whose country we are on and who we must acknowledge and pay respect to when we are on their land'.

Australian

The Language of Love

English

Right-wing boganistic

Just for the folk who consistently give vent to personal abuse against those who object to public monies being wasted re. the ABC and their constant boring indigenous postings. NB. just how many folk answered English! ONE Nation, ONE flag and ONE social welfare system

'English'. ✔👍

Look at the spelling of Waramanga in the ACT and the actual local name is Wurumungu. Most of Waramangas indigenous street names are also misspelled. Fix that.

English.

Pigeon

This just shows the ignorance and morons of this country, the irrelevant answer. They care and know more about America than their own histories

Hard to pick it with all the alcohol that’s involved.

Pidgin English.. ey..

I live in Victoria. Mandarin- as ordered by ChairmanDan

I live near Oakleigh so it’s Greek

English

Doesn't matter what it is ABC is FakeNews in anyone's language 😆

Terrible. They swear soooo much.

Macedonian

yawoodwoodja

Afrikaans.

Gooney

Pakistani

Chinese. I work in Chatswood.

English

English.

LOL at the people answering 'English'. For a language to be indigenous it must have either originated in the country or significantly diverged from original if its from elsewhere. Australian version of English is very close to British version, so not indigenous

English

English

Ghetto Language.

Gumbaynggirr

Wedaeo, it’s D’harawal.

Kaurna

Larrakia

It could be Chinese🤔 But probably Indian🤷‍♂️

English.

Wow, this is an amazing resource! So happy to be from Butchulla country

C++

None, it's the white man's land, get over it.

English

Turrbul

English.

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