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The New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) is urging the federal government to set up a trust fund to protect indigenous languages.

AECG's executive officer, Ray Ingrey, was in Broken Hill for a meeting of the Paakantyi Language Sharing Circle.

He said individual communities around the state are working hard to rejuvenate their languages.

But he said more money needs to be invested.

"As Aboriginal people, languages were taken away from us, not at our request but by past government policies that were forced on our people," he said.

"So we see