In this picture taken on October 4, 2012 participants give a presentation in an Indigenous Languages Education Programme course at Sydney University where teachers and other people involved in the ...
In 2012, the Parnkalla people began the long journey to revive their language with the help of a 171-year-old book. Working in the heart of their native title area on the Eyre Peninsula in South ...
A New Zealand linguist has launched a series of children's books she co-wrote in Gamilaraay - an endangered Aboriginal language she is working to revive using mostly digital technology in ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A linguistics expert in South Australia is hoping to use the revival of a local Aboriginal dialect as ...
A world-renowned expert on language revival says the loss of language is more damaging than the loss of land for indigenous peoples, and governments are likely to come under increasing pressure to ...
One woman was warned and from then on she never spoke it again. The Dharawal language, which once echoed from Sydney Harbour to the Illawarra, almost died out in this way, squashed from use and forced ...
The millennia-old language of Gumbaynggirr was critically endangered. Now, a series of tourism initiatives are helping to bring it back from the brink of disappearance. I stepped into the cool salt ...
For more than 300 years, the Monterey Bay area has served as a cultural and linguistic crossroads where diverse communities have met, mingled, and exchanged ideas. One of the lesser-known but deeply ...
When retired Brigadier General Jeremiah Faransa speaks about his heritage, his voice carries both pride and urgency. “Our languages are vanishing,” he says. “And with them, our stories, our proverbs, ...