Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil, and I'm Phil.

And now that we've done our hellos, let's hear some greetings in different languages

from around the world. But what do these languages have in common?

Gassi.

D.

Davidee, Davidee, Davidee.

Jommaloma nasengai.

Jullainli.

Pisabert, Kimakone, el tiktet.

I'm afraid I don't know what they have in common because I don't recognize any of them.

Well, sadly, the one thing you're nighting these languages is that they're all endangered.

We often hear about animals at risk of extinction,

but a recent study by the Australian National University found that

out of the world 7,000 existing languages have are under threat.

But what could be done to save languages from dying out?

That's what we'll be discussing in this programme, and as usual we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

But first, I have a question for you, Phil,

and it's about a country which used to be one of the most linguistically rich places on Earth,

Australia.

Before European settlers arrived in the 1800s, Australia had over 200 languages spoken by the native Aboriginal people who had lived there for thousands of years.

Many Aboriginal languages were destroyed by the brutal laws of the Australian government at the time, however some survived.

So which of the following Aboriginal languages is still spoken today?

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