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 ...

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” ...

Jingulu, which is also known as Djingili, is a language in the Mirndl language family that is spoken in the Northern Territory in Australia. Other names for the language are Chunguloo, Chingalee, ...

A smartphone app has been launched to help save an Australian indigenous language that is in danger of disappearing. Its creators say the The Ma! Iwaidja free mobile phone app is the first phone app ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visits Australia SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ...

A new language, one that combines elements of English with traditional indigenous speech, has been discovered in northern Australia, according to a new study. The language, now known as Light Warlpiri ...

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 ...

All Australian students will be entitled to learn a language other than English under the new Australian curriculum, with tuition in Chinese Mandarin and Italian among the first curriculum to be ...

Maïa Ponsonnet has received funding from the Australian Research Council (Australian) and from the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (France). UNESCO’s International Year of Indigenous Languages ...

This story was originally published by First Languages Australia in Warra: Building teams, building resources. The Gumbaynggirr language is traditionally spoken in the northern coastal region of the ...

The warning from some of the nation’s top Asia advocates, and the federal government’s own Indian Ocean affairs envoy Tim Watts, comes as Anthony Albanese has spent the last three days working the ...