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 ...

A university in Australia has created a distance-education program to teach outsiders one of the world’s oldest indigenous languages. The Northern Territory University, in Darwin, is working with the ...

The Tjapingarriwangka script was created to write Ngaanyatjarra by Robert Hancock. “The name Tjapingarriwangka means ‘message stick speech’ in Ngaanyatjarra,” according to Omniglot. Ngaanyatjarra is a ...

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 ...

The Ngaiawang language is being revived by the River Murray Mallee Aboriginal Corporation and Mobile Language Team. The group has created a list of about 800 Ngaiawang words, using archive sources ...

Liberal Aboriginal affairs spokesperson says Bernardi’s comments ‘grossly offensive’ as party announces it will preference One Nation over Labor in all seats ...

The audio is scratchy and distorted, sounding at times like it is being spoken through a wall. Yet the voice speaking is high and proud, with long, stretched syllables in English. When she breaks into ...

Three Tasmanian Aboriginal children have starred in a new animated television series, broadcast in a revived form of the original Tasmanian Aboriginal language. The new animated television series ...

Australia's Catholic bishops have approved a liturgy incorporating elements of Aboriginal language and culture, marking what some liturgists are hailing as a lived expression of the Second Vatican ...

Every week, Wiradjuri woman Monique Hill travels two hours to attend rehearsals for a special choir on the New South Wales ...