Before colonisation, many hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages thrived across Australia. Now, just over a dozen are learned as a first language. Estimates of exactly how many ...

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 ...

Every Aboriginal language in NSW is classified as critically endangered Aboriginal children were removed from their families for speaking Aboriginal language NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister says ...

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 ...

COFFS HARBOUR, Australia, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Whirling barefoot in a sand circle, Clark Webb leads a class of school children as they dance to clapsticks and the songs of the Gumbaynggirr, an ...

For all people, language is more than just words – it shapes what and how we think, it allows us to articulate our human ...

When I first learned about the Australian Aboriginal language Warlpiri, I instantly became obsessed and had to learn as much as I could about it. Warlpiri has around 3,000 speakers in Australia’s ...

The new coin was released today. IN CELEBRATION of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, the Australian Mint has released a 50 cent coin decorated in 14 different Aboriginal Australian words ...