Youth the key to save Australian Aboriginal languages

Updated July 2, 2009 11:37:58


Its estimated that more than half of the 6,000 languages spoken around the world will become extinct over the next century.

Indigenous Australian languages are disappearing the fastest, with one langauge lost every month. But now the race is on to preserve them, before its too late.

Presenter: Madeleine Genner
Speakers: Nicholas Evans, a linguist from the Australian National University; Richard Green, Dharug teacher

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