ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Outback Queensland school leads the way to keep endangered Indigenous language alive | ABC News” – below is their description.
In the outback town of Mitchell in Queensland’s south-west, students sit cross-legged in silence, waiting for the word from local Indigenous elders.
Colourful paintings adorn the classroom walls, sprawled with words in the region’s original tongue – the Gunggari language.
For the past eight years, students at St Patrick’s School have been taught the local Aboriginal language in a bid to bring back an endangered dialect once on the brink of extinction.
With high rates of engagement, the program has been hailed a success and is now being used as a blueprint for other outback schools.
With just three native Gunggari speakers left today, the language is one of countless Indigenous dialects in the midst of a major revival process.
ABC News (Australia) YouTube Channel
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