With about 90 per cent of Australia's Indigenous languages considered endangered, hundreds of people have gathered at a major event to help save them.
The biennial PULiiMA conference brings experts together to preserve Australia's more than 250 Indigenous languagesThe federal arts minister has launched a national action plan in response to the UN International Decade of Indigenous LanguagesIt's a biennial event bringing together hundreds of delegates who work to protect and preserve First Nations languages.
"With our Indigenous languages, not just here in Australia, but all around the world they are at risk of loss," he said."PULiiMA itself is about … people coming together and really lighting that fire … because we can't lose our voice.
"The decline that we have seen year after year, after year, must end, and it must be replaced with an increase in First Nations languages around the world being spoken, being lived, growing and thriving," the minister said. Delegate Bill Forshaw, an Indigenous language academic specialist from the University of Melbourne, is working on the 50 Words Project, a website with the aim of of collecting and sharing at least 50 words from every Indigenous language in Australia.
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