Indigenous languages are critically endangered

Australias Indigenous languages could be completely wiped out by 2050 according to experts. The number of traditional languages has dropped from 250 to 120 over the last two hundred years. And the ones left, face extinction. The 2011 Census shows that 83 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Islander people only speak English at home. About one in 10 speak an Australian Indigenous language.

Aboriginl elder paints a fellow elder Source: AAP Dan Peled