The 2011 Census shows that 83 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only speak English at home. About one in 10 speak an Australian Indigenous language
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Indigenous languages at risk
Aboriginal elder paints a fellow elder Source: AAP image/Dan Peled
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Australia's 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.
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