Over 250 Indigenous
Australian language groups covered the continent at the time of European settlement in 1788.
Not exact matches
If the power of interests is to determine the basis of
Australian society then Indigenous people, as a small minority
group, will continue to lose their culture, their land, and their
language to the will of the non-Indigenous majority.
For the majority of Indigenous
Australians the rights to Indigenous knowledge are generally owned collectively by the Indigenous community (or
language group, or tribal
group) as distinct from the individual.
A number of Ngunawal family
groups are working with the
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to rebuild their
language.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
languages Languages in the
Australian Indigenous
Languages group of the
Australian Standard Classification of
Languages (ASCL).