"About 300 hundred Indigenous languages were spoken across Australia at the time of colonisation. But the nation has since seen one of the highest rates of language loss in the world, with less than 30 Indigenous languages spoken as a first language today."

"Every one of these 85 languages in Western Australia are libraries of knowledge."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-29/indigenous-languages-call-for-legislative-protection/103033234
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