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Language: ** There are around 600 Aboriginal tribes in Australia, but they don’t speak the same dialects or languages. There were around 250 different languages in the beginning, but when the British people colonised Australia, the Aborigines weren’t allowed to speak their own languages anymore. They got forced to speak English. Today only 15% of the Aborigines speak the mother tongue language as their first language.
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Today there are around 550 000 Aborigines in Australia all together, but this is only 2, 7% of Australia’s population all together. Most of the other people in Australia come from the British colonisation. Here is a list over where the different Aborigines live:
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New South Wales 148 200 Queensland 146 400 Western Australia 77 900 Northern Territory 66 600 Victoria 30 800 South Australia 26 000 Tasmania 16 900 Australian Capital Territory 4 00 0