For over 60,000 years and 2500 generations over one billion Aboriginal people have walked this land together...
Today we still walk, but we have more hands to hold. This
will forever continue as we travel on our journey protecting our
country, protecting our land, protecting our culture, protecting our
language and protecting our people.
This is where we as Aboriginal people can learn and share
with one another and you, our languages, our methods for preserving our
languages and our ways of disseminating our languages.
Welcome to "Our Languages" website. This is our place and it is your place now.
Our aim is for this to become a place where People from all
around Australia will be able to share and to come together in all
manner of ways to support the 250 plus Aboriginal Languages that exist
in this country. From learning to commence a language program, to
finding out what tools and resources exist to help, even to actually
learning a language- we hope that all of these things and more will
become available here, and make some difference to your journey.
If you would like to see how you can become part of the "Our Languages" website please contact us.
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