A Gumbaynggirr elder was never allowed to speak her native tongue, but now she learns alongside her great-granddaughter at an ...

Jill Kitson: Hello, and welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Aboriginal languages: why the struggle to keep them alive? Indigenous Australians tell Nicholas Rothwell what is at stake. In 2001, in a ...

Aboriginal elders talk about the “re-awakening” of languages that are fading from living memory. At NSW public schools, the soft chatter of ancient tongues is appearing on classroom doors, in songs ...

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 ...

In news that absolutely rules, the University of Melbourne has revamped its 50 Words Project for NAIDOC Week 2020, which allows users to listen to exactly 50 words spoken in a plethora of Indigenous ...

But where governments once ordered that the languages not be spoken, they are now funding their revival. Whether the restoration efforts are enough for widespread revitalisation of the languages is ...

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare announced $11m in grants on Thursday for 26 language projects in more than 40 communities through the First Nations Languages Education Program. Some of the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It may still be an unfamiliar word to many Melburnians but for thousands of years it has been the ...

Indigenous languages and lessons about the Stolen Generation would be taught to students under a bold curriculum overhaul in every Australian school. Calls are mounting for specialist staff to teach ...

The 2011 Census shows that 83 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Islander people only speak English at home. About one in 10 speak an Australian Indigenous language. Melinda Holden is a Warrgamay and ...

Little J and Big Cuz are Indigenous Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog, the dog. Spoken in the Indigenous languages of Gija, Noongar, Torres Strait Creole, Palawa Kani, Warlpiri and ...

I recently had the opportunity to travel to New Zealand for the first time. At first, I was amazed at how similar it seemed to Australia, but as I walked around Auckland I noticed a big difference — ...