Push to bring NSW Aboriginal languages back from brink of extinction

About 35 Aboriginal languages remain in NSW, and the state’s Aboriginal languages week is designed to halt further loss

Some of the last surviving Aboriginal languages left in New South Wales are at risk of extinction unless governments maintain funding and support to preserve them, the state’s Aboriginal Languages Trust says.

The trust’s executive director, Clare McHugh, says it is hard to know exactly how many languages existed before colonisation but about 35 of them remain in NSW.

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