Even as Australia steps up its engagement in the Asia-Pacific region few Australians are learning languages that reflect their place in the Asian century. Currently 12.8 percent of students in year 12 ...

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 ...

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” ...

Michael Christie receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Dr Brian Devlin works for Charles Darwin University, which is a partner in the Living Archive Project, funded by the Australian ...

Director of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Research Office, University of Sydney From 2016, high school students will be able to study any one of the 70 or more Aboriginal languages of New South ...

Dozens of Northern Territory Indigenous leaders have met to develop a series of recommendations to protect their native languages, with concerns some could be lost when elders die. A 2019 survey found ...

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 ...