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  2. Australian Aboriginal languages - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous languages of Australia comprise numerous language families and isolates, perhaps as many as 13, spoken by the Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. [3] The relationships between the language families are not clear at present although there are proposals to link some into larger groupings.

  3. List of Australian Aboriginal languages - Wikipedia

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    Atampaya language: Extinct Australian Aboriginal English: Over 30,000 Vigorous Developed post-contact Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English language: Few Nearly extinct Pidgin. Developed post-contact. Has been mostly creolized. Australian Kriol language: Creole, Pidgin English, Roper-Bamyili Creole 4,200 Vigorous

  4. Languages of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Humans arrived in Australia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago [20] [21] but it is possible that the ancestor language of existing Indigenous languages is as recent as 12,000 years old. [22] Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact. [ 1 ]

  5. Australian schools lead revival of fading Indigenous languages

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    But the most recent census showed that despite more than 150 languages still being spoken in 2021, just 9.5% of Indigenous Australians reported speaking one or more at home.

  6. Pama–Nyungan languages - Wikipedia

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    The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, [1] containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia. [2] The name "Pama–Nyungan" is a merism: it is derived from the two end-points of the range, the Pama languages of northeast Australia (where the word for "man" is pama) and the Nyungan languages of southwest Australia (where the ...

  7. Category:Australian Aboriginal languages - Wikipedia

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    See also Category:Indigenous Australian language stubs for related articles in need of expansion. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.

  8. Aboriginal Australians - Wikipedia

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    Several hundred Australian Aboriginal languages, many no longer spoken, Australian English, Australian Aboriginal English, Kriol: Religion; Majority Christian (mainly Anglican and Catholic), [2] minority no religious affiliation, [2] and small numbers of other religions, various local indigenous religions grounded in Australian Aboriginal mythology

  9. List of Aboriginal languages of New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    During the International Year of Indigenous Languages the issues of language loss and language revitalization projects were featured from the perspectives of First Nations people around NSW in a Living Language exhibition. [15] The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) maintain the AUSTLANG database of ...