After taking particular interest into the topic of declining Australian Indigenous languages i decided to do a search on the Australian Bureau of Statistics website to see what I could find in terms of stats based around these areas. The results were not surprising but I liked the way they had been charted and categorised – I found this easy to study.
Below is the link to the evaluation of social trends in Australian Indigenous Languages (1999).
The next link takes you to a summary of the 2011 census detailing key findings regarding this area. I found the comparisons interesting – hopefully you will too!
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/2076.0main+features902011
I will leave you with this for now, however, I hope to look further into the resources from the ABS and provide a more in depth analysis on the findings.
- This article originally appears at:
- http://australianlanguages.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/australian-bureau-of-statistics-indigenous-languages/
- Article taken from the following publication:
- Australian Aboriginal Languages Student Blog
- Article submitted by:
- Author:
- Megan Kersten, LING366
