Aboriginal communities in Western Australia collectively speak more than 60 languages. Communication barriers have been a long-term challenge for these communities when accessing public and social ...

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 ...

Truganini’s death in Hobart in May 1876 attracted worldwide attention. She was widely, but wrongly, believed to have been the last Aboriginal person to have survived the Tasmanian genocide. Her demise ...

Students at a NSW Central Coast preschool start their day talking about their feelings in Darkinjung, the local Aboriginal language. Darkinjung is the predominant First Nations group in the region, ...

A smartphone game designed to save an Aboriginal language with only a handful of speakers remaining has been awarded five international awards, alongside projects backed by corporate giants Google and ...

The Ngaiawang language is being revived by the River Murray Mallee Aboriginal Corporation and Mobile Language Team. The group has created a list of about 800 Ngaiawang words, using archive sources ...

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 ...