Cultural sophistication and economic complexity need to be understood as intrinsically linked. It’s time for Australia to take language learning more seriously. Last week I wrote about how Australia’s ...

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 ...

Despite few Australians knowing about Indigenous languages efforts are being made across the country to increase awareness of them. AAP exclaimed Milly, the receptionist at an Indigenous radio station ...

Jingulu, which is also known as Djingili, is a language in the Mirndl language family that is spoken in the Northern Territory in Australia. Other names for the language are Chunguloo, Chingalee, ...

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” ...

What better way to visualize the diversity of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages than with a multimedia online map? “Gambay,” which means “together” in the Butchulla language ...

Tiwi, an Australian language isolate, is spoken on the Tiwi Islands which are near the Northern Territory of Australia, according to Omniglot. Some of Tiwi’s different names are Diwi, Wongak, and ...

India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh It may be a massive leap for Australia to jump beyond its current linguistic lassitude, but the increasingly difficult ...