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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.
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
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 ]
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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 ...