An endangered language, spoken only by Indigenous people in Logan’s South and the Gold Coast Hinterland, took centre stage in Parliament House - Canberra last week, as efforts grow to save endangered Aboriginal languages.
Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Mascot, Borobi, joined Chief Executive of the Yugambeh Museum, Rory O’Connor, to present a book explaining the Yugambeh language to the Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher.
The book titled Back from Lost — against the odds tells the story of the 35-year journey to bring back the lost Yugambeh language.
At the conclusion of last year’s Commonwealth Games, the Queensland Government announced that Mascot Borobi would be used to champion indigenous language awareness at a time when 90 per cent of the 250 known Aboriginal languages are regarded as endangered.