Aboriginal communities in Western Australia collectively speak more than 60 languages. Communication barriers have been a long-term challenge for these communities when accessing public and social ...

When Mayarr Yanner attended primary school more than a decade ago in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria she was taught Japanese. Her peers at Burketown State School, most of whom were Aboriginal, asked ...

Chair of Indigenous Linguistics and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University The NSW government has announced it will propose ...

Fifty years ago, students would be punished for taking this class. Now they're bringing this Indigenous language back. Every Monday afternoon, a handful of people gather in a TAFE classroom on the New ...

This month, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the launch of APTN Languages, a channel dedicated to programming in 18 different Indigenous ...

Felicity Meakins receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Aboriginal Benefits Account. Acknowledging Australia’s traditional owners of country and paying respect to Indigenous ...

If you were to ask me two years ago what my favorite language family was, I would have said that I couldn’t pick one. I would say that because I believe that every language family is interesting in ...

Cherylynne Catanzariti has been teaching Aboriginal language for almost 30 years but it was not until 2024 that she began leading classes at Kaurna Plains School in Elizabeth, where her mother first ...

At the invitation of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, representatives from SFU's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) travelled to Nanaimo in July 2022 to witness the opening ceremony of the new ...

The NSW Department of Education and the Aboriginal Education and Communities Directorate today demonstrated their commitment to safeguarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and language ...

Words are the binds that keep communities together, but many of Australia's First Languages are rapidly being lost. When combined with new technologies, however, they can be preserved and spread in ...