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Aboriginal Languages
For over 60,000 years and 2500 generations over one billion Aboriginal people have walked this land together...
Today we still walk, but we have more hands to hold. This will forever continue as we travel on our journey protecting our country, protecting our land, protecting our culture, protecting our language and protecting our people.
This is where we as Aboriginal people can learn and share with one another and you, our languages, our methods for preserving our languages and our ways of disseminating our languages.
Welcome to "Our Languages" website. This is our place and it is your place now.
Our aim is for this to become a place where People from all around Australia will be able to share and to come together in all manner of ways to support the 250 plus Aboriginal Languages that exist in this country. From learning to commence a language program, to finding out what tools and resources exist to help, even to actually learning a language- we hope that all of these things and more will become available here, and make some difference to your journey.
If you would like to see how you can become part of the "Our Languages" website please contact us.
Latest News
Writing On Wall For Remote Tongues
A NATIONAL bilingual syllabus is urgently needed in schools in Aboriginal communities to slow the rapid decline of indigenous languages, the new peak Aboriginal congress has told the Gillard government. The...
26 Jan 2012 Northern Territory News
Read moreElders Track Lost Indigenous Languages
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics over 250 Indigenous languages were spoken in Australia before white settlement, just over half of those still exist today. Sadly the majority of those...
25 Jan 2012 Queensland News
Read moreNT Indigenous Elder Is Senior Australian
Northern Territory indigenous elder Laurie Baymarrwangga has been named the 2012 Senior Australian of the Year for protecting her culture and country. The 95-year-old from the island of Murrungga, north-east of...
25 Jan 2012 National News
Read moreCash-Strapped Archive Struggles To Preserve Indigenous History
Australia's flagship institute for indigenous studies has stopped giving out research grants as it diverts funding to save a century of cultural recordings from oblivion. The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and...
24 Jan 2012 National News
Read morePiecing Together Region's Language Puzzle
One local woman has created an initiative aimed at restoring some of the lost words and language of the Wiradjuri people. Many of us share an interest in wanting to learn...
24 Jan 2012 New South Wales News
Read morePanel Recommends Indigenous Recognition
Indigenous Australians should be recognised in the body of the Constitution and racist sections should be scrapped, an expert panel has recommended. Labor has promised to hold a national referendum on...
19 Jan 2012 National News
Read moreHigh-Tech Bid To Save Ancient Top End Language
Researchers are developing a mobile phone application in an effort to help save an ancient Aboriginal language that is close to being lost forever. The language of Iwaidja is thousands of...
17 Jan 2012 Northern Territory News
Read moreA Language From Busselton's Past
"Narlighn coomarl* noonduck yayer cuttick." Does this phrase ring a bell? Highly unlikely. Yet it is a question that is probably asked quite often, particularly if someone complains about their prize roses...
11 Jan 2012 Western Australia News
Read moreKeeping Your Word
Are you proud of your language? Not just the one you use now, but the one you were brought up on in your first years of life? Working in radio, you...
11 Jan 2012 Western Australia News
Read moreHAVE YOUR SAY: Laverton Centre Gets Name
LAVERTON residents and Hobsons Bay councillors have decided a community hub by any other name just wouldn't be as sweet. After calling for community suggestions last July to name the $8...
10 Jan 2012 Victorian News
Read moreMusical Feet Of Strength
Six powerful voices, three cultures, one stage - the Barefoot Divas are set to stun at the Sydney Festival. Put two divas in a room together and you get a whole...
08 Jan 2012 New South Wales News
Read moreLinguists Learn To Fight ‘Killer’ English For Survival
Vadodara. If communities did not make efforts to protect their cultures and languages, English would, one day, devour them all, fear linguists, researchers and language activists from across the world,...
08 Jan 2012 International
Read moreIndigenous Cultures Exchanged
TWO distinctly different yet similar cultures met at St James' Parish today, as members of the Native American Anishinabe tribe met with local Aboriginal people at the Indigenous Culture in...
04 Jan 2012 Queensland News
Read moreFirst Aboriginal Language Graduates
THE first group of Aboriginal students and teachers to graduate with a Certificate I in Aboriginal Languages- Gathang have celebrated their year-long achievement at both Taree and Great Lakes TAFE...
03 Jan 2012 New South Wales News
Read moreCyclone Warnings For Remote Communities
ABC Local Radio in the Northern Territory will be broadcast through the Indigenous TEABBA network over Christmas, with cyclone information warnings played in indigenous languages.
21 Dec 2011 Northern Territory News
Read moreEven blokes shed a tear as the sounds of the Kimberley hit Broadway
Hugh Jackman is promoting indigenous arts, writes Ellen Connolly in New York. NORMALLY around this time of year, Olive Knight would be preparing for the wet season in her isolated Aboriginal...
21 Dec 2011 International
Read moreRest Up At Paddys
A NEW rest stop and visitor information display has been opened at Paddys Rest, Eungai Rail. The display provides motorists with information about destinations, attractions and other tourism experiences, says Oxley...
21 Dec 2011 New South Wales News
Read moreIndigiTUBE An Outback Video Star
Nevermind Youtube with it's billions of dollars and slick graphics, the video file sharing site that has everyone out bush in a buzz was created in Australia especially for videos...
14 Dec 2011 National News
Read moreLearning With Culture
There's more than one way to learn. Dr Tyson Yunkaporta from the Regional Aboriginal Education Team for Western NSW for the Department of Education and Training has been instrumental in designing...
13 Dec 2011 New South Wales News
Read moreStep to honour our First People
AUSTRALIANS will be asked to change the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and languages, prohibit racial discrimination and remove the last vestiges of racism in the...
09 Dec 2011 National News
Read more3D Animation Helps Preserve Indigenous History
A ground-breaking new venture between Monash University's Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Information Technology (IT) is striving to preserve the history of Australia's Indigenous population.
05 Dec 2011 National News
Read moreIndigenous Dictionary Released On Straddie
NORTH Stradbroke Island has its own indigenous dictionary, called the Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-in-Council Jandai Language Dictionary.
05 Dec 2011 Queensland News
Read moreDestroying Indigenous Communities And Cultures
Jenny Macklin has just delivered her second reading speech for the new intervention legislation.
01 Dec 2011 Northern Territory News
Read moreMusic The Language To Lower All Barriers
IN THE space of just two months, the Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has met the US President, Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
27 Nov 2011 Northern Territory News
Read moreIndigenous Languages 'must be preserved'
A NATIONAL body should be established to encourage the learning of indigenous languages in Aboriginal communities, an inquiry has been told.
18 Nov 2011 National News
Read morePodcast: Australia Through its Languages
Play in New Window | Download When Barack Obama goes abroad, he has a knack of disarming the locals by quoting from the local language. Even if the locals...
16 Nov 2011 National News
Read moreFight For Nyoongar Language
A QUEENS Park based Aboriginal group is fighting to preserve the Nyoongar language.
15 Nov 2011 Western Australia News
Read moreCulture, Language And Art Bring Students Together
Primary School students recently enjoyed a triple bill Friday assembly when the school officially received brand new flags, copies of a great new Aboriginal language DVD starring some of the...
14 Nov 2011 Western Australia News
Read moreAboriginal Language On Broadway
It's only a small thing, but I'm a fan of both Australian indigenous languages and musicals (and, thanks to X-Men, of Hugh Jackman as well). All three show up together...
14 Nov 2011 International
Read moreHearing Language Improves Healing
Three new medical dictionaries in Ojibway-English, Oji-Cree-English and Cree-English have been developed to help patients at the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre.
10 Nov 2011 International
Read moreNew NT Education Policy Still Sidelines Indigenous Language
The Northern Territory government's latest proposed approach to teaching Aboriginal students, like its previous policy, places a primacy on reading and writing in English. It allows for students' first language...
05 Nov 2011 Northern Territory News
Read morePolicy Joins Dots On Indigenous Culture
A new Indigenous culture repatriation policy has been launched by the Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean.
02 Nov 2011 National News
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