[PDF] Aboriginal Languages FACT SHEET: - Australian National PDF Indigenous_Australian_Languages_Fact

All Indigenous languages with living speakers are considered endangered; the strongest of these languages have approximately 3000 speakers with children still

Unfortunately they also comprise 9 per cent of the world's critically or severely endangered languages (Forrest 2013) Of the original number of more than 250 known Australian Indigenous languages, only about 145 are still spoken and 110 are critically endangered (http://arts gov au/indigenous/languages)

[PDF] STATEMENT TO THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT ON - OHCHR

From an internationally recognised linguistic perspective, the critically endangered status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages in Australia is at crisis

[PDF] The importance of Indigenous Languages - Parliament of Australia

1 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and Endangered Aboriginal Language, Murray Bridge TAFE, South Australia,

[PDF] State of Indigenous Languages in Australia 2001 - Minerva Access

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Nicholas Indigenous languages are among those most threatened by these developments

[PDF] The perilous state of Indigenous languages in Australia - Australian

12 jan 2010 · Indigenous languages are critically endangered in Australia Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the