Miriwoong: The Australian language barely anybody speaks - BBC News

European settlement wiped out half of Australia's indigenous languages, and around100 more are in serious danger of being lost.

Miriwoong is one of them. Spoken for tens of thousands of years in a part of Western Australia, the language has now just a handful of fluent speakers.

But there is a huge push to keep the miriwoong alive. So why is it so important?