Most Indigenous languages 'unlikely to continue'

[Francis Hult]

ABC Online

 

Most Indigenous languages 'unlikely to continue'

 

A linguistics professor says it takes several generations to revive a language and many Indigenous languages are at risk of being lost.

 

Jeannie Bell from the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education says there are less than 40 Indigenous languages surviving, with most unlikely to continue.

 

"Some of our students are working with limited documented material of their language to try and bring language back and in a realistic sense they are only able to bring language back in limited ways," she said.

 

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