The story of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages is one of loss, resilience and now renewal.

Bangkok, Mar 9 (EFE).Bangkok, Mar 9 (EFE). — A contemporary dance theater group in southern Australia has revived a lost Aboriginal language by integrating native songs into public workshops and ...

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 ...

Three years ago, the United Nations issued a dire warning: Australia was one of dozens of countries facing a mass extinction event. But it wasn't flora or fauna that was at risk of being lost — it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bangkok, Feb 18 (EFE).Bangkok, Feb 18 (EFE). — The parliament of Australia’s Northern Territory turned down the request by an Aboriginal minister to speak in her Indigenous language, media reported ...

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 ...

European New Zealanders have embraced and preserved the Māori culture and language far better than European Australians. Rob Chandler/Flickr, CC BY-SA The idea that our Kiwi cousins have a much better ...