The audio is scratchy and distorted, sounding at times like it is being spoken through a wall. Yet the voice speaking is high and proud, with long, stretched syllables in English. When she breaks into ...

Words are the binds that keep communities together, but many of Australia's First Languages are rapidly being lost. When combined with new technologies, however, they can be preserved and spread in ...

Creating and cataloguing recordings of indigenous languages is a challenging enough technology task, but the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre had some additional barriers to overcome: ...

Aboriginal children are being born in Tasmania today knowing the sounds of their ancient tongue. They are the first to do so for 150 years Read more from Guardian Australia’s Speaking to country ...

Her great-great-grandmother is the source of the only audio recordings of the now sleeping Tasmanian Aboriginal languages – and June Sculthorpe is determined to wake them up. Fanny is the source of ...

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 ...

Victoria's proposed Treaty with Aboriginal people will bring about quite a few changes. As one of them, you might start hearing a few words you didn't know. The Statewide Treaty Bill, which passed the ...

When work started in 1993 to reconstruct the lost Aboriginal language of Tasmania, the idea was to make the words accurate, consistent and simple to learn. Palawa kani was the outcome — a language ...

When I first learned about the Australian Aboriginal language Warlpiri, I instantly became obsessed and had to learn as much as I could about it. Warlpiri has around 3,000 speakers in Australia’s ...

Award-winning author and University of South Australia academic Dr Debra Dank has unveiled her latest work, Terraglossia, a powerful response to colonial oppression that invites all Australians to ...

SYDNEY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The sandstone rock shelters sitting on Tasmania's Mount Wellington were built by indigenous tribes thousands of years ago, but it was only in 2014 that the ...

Rhonda Oliver receives funding from Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with Curtin University and supports the not-for-profit organisation "Kate Mullin Association" which supports ...