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 ...

Australia is home to more than 250 Indigenous languages, but since colonisation many have been silenced. Now communities across the country are working hard to reawaken their languages, so they’re not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

We have translated the Australian National Anthem and citizenship pledge into many of the languages spoken throughout ...

Australia and England are both multicultural countries where hundreds of languages are spoken. However, in both, levels of ...