From an estimated total of 250 languages that was used by Aboriginal Australians at the time of arrival of Europeans in the country, there are only 20 now left.
But where the government ordered that the languages be stopped being used at that time, they themselves are now spending huge amounts of money to revive them.
Listen to the report by Murray Silby about this subject below.
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