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Language Alternative names Speakers Status Notes Adithinngithigh language: Adetingiti Extinct Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Unwritten language. Adnyamathanha language, Adynyamathanha language [1] Ad'n'amadana, Anjimatana, Anjiwatana, Atnyamathanha 110 (2006) Severely endangered SA R. M. W. Dixon classifies Adnyamathanha and Guyani as a ...
The New South Wales Aboriginal Languages Act 2017 became law on 24 October 2017 and established a board to advise on the preservation of Aboriginal languages that is known as the Aboriginal Languages Trust. [39] It was the first legislation in Australia to acknowledge the significance of first languages. [40]
The National Indigenous Languages Survey (NILS) for 2018-19 found that more than 120 Indigenous language varieties were in use or being revived, although 70 of those in use are endangered. [23] The 2021 census found that 167 Indigenous languages were spoken at home by 76,978 Indigenous Australians. [ 24 ]
See also Category:Indigenous Australian language stubs for related articles in need of expansion. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics, from the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl, which had millions of active speakers, to many languages with only several hundred speakers.
The Aboriginal Language and Culture Nest project in NSW draws together communities with a common language to create opportunities to "revitalise, reclaim and maintain traditional languages". [14] There are Aboriginal Language and Culture Nests that focus on the Bundjalung, Gamilaraay, Gumbaynggirr, Wiradjuri and Paakantji/Baarkintji languages. [14]
Most Australian Aboriginal languages have three- or five-vowel systems, and these form the substrate for Aboriginal English vowel pronunciations, especially in more basilectal accents. More basilectal varieties tend to merge a number of vowels, up to the point of merging all Australian English vowels into the three or five vowels of a given ...
The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 [45] languages belonging to an estimated 28 language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. [46] The relationships between these languages are not clear at present.