The Western Australian government will provide financial support for an Aboriginal-led project enabling language continuation in the Kimberley.

The initiative aims to support Indigenous languages in the Kimberley and will facilitate an Aboriginal-led State of Language Continuation in the Kimberley reporting project.

The Kimberley Language Resource Centre has been provided with a $200,000 support package to develop the report.

Centre manager Sara Bergmann said it has been a long time since a whole Kimberley language study has been completed.

"We have around 42 languages in the Kimberley and all unique languages and that's not not including the dialects," the Nykina and Nyul Nyul woman said.

"We'll look at all of the languages from across the entire Kimberley, look at the state of the language, where it's at on its language continuation journey, then look at the next steps that we need to take to make sure that those languages continue to be spoken."

The Kimberley region covers an area more than 423,500 square kilometres and is home to 30 per cent of Australia's living Indigenous languages.

More than 42 Indigenous languages are spoken by people from five cultural blocks in the Kimberley.

Ms Bergmann said the outcomes from the study will be fed back to the First Nations people in the Kimberley.

"Aboriginal people that are in the community are actually being utilised to conduct a lot of this research," she said.

"Rather than what we find a lot of the time with external people coming in, asking questions of people that they don't know, and disappearing and those people never actually finding out what happened with the information.

"So this is very much a grassroots study...and we should be able to use the information to make sure we're making really informed decisions about where we invest in the case for Indigenous languages in the Kimberley."

Minister for Culture and the Arts David Templeman said language continuation plays a large part in strengthening cultural identity.

"Aboriginal youth suicide is a longstanding issue in the Kimberley, and language continuity has been identified by Aboriginal leaders as an important part of strengthening the cultural identity of younger generations," he said.

"By working towards language continuity, the State of Language Continuation in the Kimberley Report will add to collaborative efforts to improve wellbeing among Aboriginal young people."

Ms Bergmann said it was thanks to the ARGG (Aboriginal Regional Governance Group) for Kimberley's wellbeing that the State of Language Continuation report was noted as a priority for Kimberley young people.