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Queensland town reviving Indigenous Wakka Wakka language
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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6/23/2023
Australia has one of the world's fastest rates of language loss, with just 40 of our original 250 indigenous languages still spoken. But a small town in Queensland's North Burnett region is trying to revive the local Wakka language.
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