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 ...

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 ...

Laura Rademaker received funding from the Northern Territory History Grants Scheme, Australian Research Theology Foundation and Cushwa Centre. Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With ...

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 ...

After an intensive two-year adult immersion program, the number of fluent Spokane Salish language speakers nearly doubled.

In this boot camp, students learn to take risks and get “messy” — by studying grammar, that is. Claire Bowern, professor of linguistics, conceived of the Grammar Boot Camp several ago as a way of ...

Jaz Fusi has been passionate about learning Paakantyi language for most of her life. Now, she teaches it to her local ...

Carly Steele received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language to conduct this research as ...

The NSW Aboriginal Languages Festival 2025, a vibrant celebration of NSW Aboriginal languages and community-led revitalisation, will kick off NSW ...

With some Australian Aboriginal languages facing extinction, the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) has adopted Microsoft SharePoint and Access to help its work to preserve one ...

Australia has issued a new 50 cent coin celebrating some of the country’s indigenous languages, many of which are at risk of extinction. The new design incorporates 14 translations of the word “coin” ...