Miromaa Support

You can contact us via

Phone: +61 24940 9100

Email: miromaa@acra.org.au 

TeamViewer Remote QuickSupport

Please pre-arrange a TeamViewer Support call

teamviewer logo miromaa

We can also do TEAMS and ZOOM with prior
arrangement

+61 2 4940 9100
contact@acra.org.au
L1/9 Main Rd Boolaroo

Language Conservation

When a language dies out, future generations lose a vital part of the culture that is necessary to truly understand it. When a language dies, a unique perspective towards the world and an approach to living in that place dies with it. Western colonisation and rapid urbanisation has played a large part in the endangerment and extinction of many languages. 

UNESCO provide a classification system for language conservation status:

VULNERABLE

Most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g. home).

 

 

DEFINITELY ENDANGERED

Children no longer learn the language as a 'mother tongue' in the home.

 

 

SEVERELY ENDANGERED

Language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves.

 

 

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

The youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently.

 

 

EXTINCT - First Nations people prefer to say "sleeping"

There are no speakers left. 

 


ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LANGUAGES

Our languages are critically endangered in Australia and it is estimated that every two weeks in the world a language disappears with Australia’s original languages fast becoming obsolete. Aboriginal people in Australia have the oldest living civilisation in the world. Since European colonisation Indigenous people have been disconnected from the languages of their country. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, the loss of language means the loss of cultural and personal identity. This often brings distress and suffering.