Aboriginal language custodians release a road map for the survival and revival of Northern Territory Indigenous languages.

The approximately 400 languages of Aboriginal Australia can be grouped into 27 different families. To put that diversity in context, Europe has just four language families, Indo-European, Basque, ...

Imagine asking someone to move their "left foot" and receiving a puzzled look, not because they misunderstood you, but ...

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 ...

Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With around 250 languages spoken when Australia was first colonised, Australia was one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. But few ...

Aboriginal English is spoken by an estimated 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and is the first and only language spoken by many Aboriginal children. There are similarities between ...