<b>Call for action to save Aboriginal languages</b><br><br>September 18, 2012<br>Bianca Hall<br><br>Aboriginal languages are in danger of being wiped out in the next decade, with only 18 of an estimated 250 original languages still spoken by significant numbers of people.<br>
<br>Those who speak Aboriginal languages as a first language face stark disadvantage and social problems, a report has found.<br><br>After more than a year of work, Parliament's standing committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs yesterday released a wide-ranging report recommending urgent work be done to ensure as many languages as possible survive, and that speakers of those languages are not further marginalised from mainstream society.<br>
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