Debra Evans, a lecturer at CSU's School of Indigenous Australian Studies, said a certificate was launched earlier this year to teach the Wiradjuri Aboriginal language for generations to come.

Wagga Wagga - translating to "the place of many crows" - is perhaps the most well-known word from the language.

Ms Evans said the language needed to be protected, arguing that it could be strengthened by understanding the Wiradjuri identity and nationhood.

"The aim is to help Wiradjuri and non-Wiradjuri people preserve the community's language for generations to come," she said.

"The course was developed in response to a need to rebuild the nation."

The native language was declared extinct in 2009.

The first students of the Wiradjuri language course are in Wagga this week as part of the residential schools program.

The course is offered as distance postgraduate program in partnership with the Wiradjuri Council of Elders and members of the Wiradjuri nation of the central-west, western slopes and plains regions of NSW.

Ms Evans said the partnership with Wiradjuri elders had been key to the success of the course. 

Meanwhile, CSU has launched a book with the Catholic Schools Office as a result of a children's learning project.

The project, called "Listening to the voices of children", involved research by second year students on how to improve children's reading and writing.

It followed the idea that children could dictate their own stories, free from the limitations of handwriting and spelling.