Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Australian Aboriginal English (AAE)

Language; Endangered languages

Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is the name given to a dialect of Australian English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian population. It is made up of a number of varieties which ...

Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English

Language; Endangered languages

Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English refers to the pidginised varieties of English spoken by Australian Aborigines until about the early 1950s for communication with Europeans and other immigrant ...

Gajirrabeng

Language; Endangered languages

Gajirrabeng is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kimberley region, today known by only three or four fluent speakers. The nearby Gurindji language is known to have borrowed from Gajirrabeng.

Wunambal

Language; Endangered languages

Wunambal is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia. Wunambal has several dialects, some of which may sometimes be treated as separate languages..

Gamilaraay

Language; Endangered languages

The Gamilaraay or Kamilaroi language is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup found mostly in South East Australia. It was the traditional language of the Kamilaroi people, but is now ...

Kabi

Language; Endangered languages

The Kabi (or Kabi Kabi or Gubbi Gubbi) people are an Aboriginal Goori people of Australia, and corresponding language group of the South East Queensland coast, stretching from Brisbane up to ...

endangered language

Language; Endangered languages

An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. If eventually no one speaks the language at all it becomes ...