Race to halt loss of indigenous Australian languages

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Updated July 3, 2009 08:17:59

There are currently 6,000 languages spoken around the world but they are disappearing at a rapid rate, and indigenous Australian languages are disappearing the fastest with one language lost every month. It's estimated that more than half of them will become extinct over the next century and most of these will disappear without being recorded. But now the race is on to preserve them, before its too late.

Presenter: Madeleine Genner
Speaker: Richard Green, Dharug teacher; Nicholas Evans, linguist Australian national University

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