Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of Australia, young people who speak an Indigenous language have lower rates of binge drinking and illegal drug use compared to non-speakers, as well as a decreased chance of becoming victims of violence." From https://www.sapiens.org/language/endangeredlanguages/?fbclid=IwAR33KCi2Vl1XaZjJvWETfiW3A80mEKQPjH_8ATc6BlfYL5MTnU ZsLSZJzMk. Thanks, Carol Benson for the quote! 14 First published in takahē literary journal, Aotearoa New Zealand. Thanks, Vaughan for sending it! 15 Fernand was also probably the first lawyer who explicitly accepted that linguistic rights in education are linguistic HUMAN rights. See de Varennes, Fernand (2000). Tolerance and Inclusion: The Convergence of Human Rights and the Work of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. In Phillipson, Robert (ed.) (2000). Rights to language. Equity, power and education. Mahwah, NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 67- 71.