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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
The Lasting Power of Oral Traditions
Modern generations are now realising that the immediacy and intimacy of live storytelling cannot be captured by technology. Are oral traditions still relevant? Are they slowly being replaced with technology? In...
29 Jul 2010 International
Read moreMarvin in the Media - Animated Language Resource Creation
MARVIN is an easy to use internationally awarded animation program. This program is a great tool for creating Language Resources. For more information about MARVIN visit www.marvin.com.
28 Jul 2010 National News
Read moreIndigenous Language Institute Looking at High-Tech Solutions to an Age-Old Challenge
(Edmonton) The herculean task of preserving and teaching endangered Aboriginal languages in Canada is getting a high-tech boost. Phillip Cash Cash, a PhD candidate in the Anthropology and Linguistics program at...
22 Jul 2010 International
Read more20 Endangered Languages in Alaska; InField to the Rescue.
Now one workshop can’t save any language, but a recent institute certainly boosted the attendees’ capacities for skills, strategies, and spirit in this challenging endeavor. University of Alaska Southeast (UAS)...
22 Jul 2010 International
Read moreAlice Conference Discusses Fight for Jobs and Language
More than 200 people attended the “Defending Indigenous Rights” conference, held in Alice Springs from July 6-9, to discuss the campaign against the NT Intervention. Delegates from “prescribed” Aboriginal communities joined...
21 Jul 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreNext Generation of Elders
Leading up to the early 1980s, the Tlicho communities were managed by elders. No one would challenge them because they were too powerful in their words. They were born and raised...
19 Jul 2010 International
Read moreTechnology Rejuvenates Neglected Languages
IT'S TECHNOLOGY'S 21st century whizzbangery that usually grabs the headlines — 3D TV, mobile information systems, social media and the like — but sometimes a new application to an everyday...
15 Jul 2010 Victorian News
Read moreHope Pictorial Dictionaries Will Preserve Indigenous Languages
Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) has secured Federal Government funding to develop the dictionaries for 14 language groups, covering one-third of the state. DCQ spokesman Jeff Poole says it is hard to...
12 Jul 2010 Queensland News
Read moreAlice Springs Convergence Condemns NT Intervention
More than 200 people gathered at the Yirara College in Alice Springs over July 6-9 for a conference entitled Defending Indigenous Rights: Land, Law, Culture Convergence. The convergence brought together Aboriginal...
10 Jul 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreSchool Brings Hope to The Block
The $1.2 million redevelopment of St Vincent's presbytery has been approved by City of Sydney Council and registration as a primary school has been granted by the NSW Board of...
09 Jul 2010 New South Wales News
Read moreJesuits to Open New School in Redfern
A new, tuition-free Jesuit primary school for Aboriginal children is set to open its doors in Sydney in 2011, providing disadvantaged children with a quality, holistic education which responds to...
07 Jul 2010 New South Wales News
Read moreSupporting Indigenous Students
As a young man with Aboriginal heritage, Adam Jennings guides young Indigenous boys through college in Ballarat, helping them realise opportunities that they otherwise wouldn't have. Adam was born...
02 Jul 2010 National News
Read moreGumbaynggirr Language
Learn to speak the traditional language of the Gumbaynggirr people. Gumbaynggirr language is traditionally spoken between the Nambucca River in the south (southern dialect) and the Clarence River in the north...
02 Jul 2010 New South Wales News
Read moreBringing Aboriginal Culture into the Classroom
THEY'RE educating the educators hoping it will lead to better learning for Aboriginal children. The Campbelltown Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, the local arm of a non-profit advisory body, held its first...
30 Jun 2010 New South Wales News
Read moreEducators and Scholars Come Together to Examine and Improve Language Preservation
Around the world, educators and scholars are coming together throughout the summer at special conferences and institutes to explore new ways to protect, maintain, and transmit Indigenous languages....
16 Jun 2010 International
Read moreAboriginal Interpreter Service Opens in Wadeye
A new Aboriginal Interpreter Service office has opened in Wadeye. Indigenous Development Minister Malarndirri McCarthy says the Wadeye office, and another soon to be opened in Nhulunbuy, will employ...
16 Jun 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreFunding Announced for Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records Program 2010-11
The Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records (MILR) Program aims to address the steady erosion and loss of Australia’s estimated 250 original Indigenous languages by providing funding support for the...
10 Jun 2010 National News
Read more$42 Million Supports Australia's Indigenous Arts, Culture and Heritage
$42 million from five Australian Government programs is supporting over 380 Indigenous arts, culture and heritage projects across Australia, the Minister for Arts and Heritage, Peter Garrett, announced today. "The Australian...
10 Jun 2010 National News
Read moreReclaiming Native Language Title Rights
By Ghil’ad Zuckermann ‘I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history,...
09 Jun 2010 National News
Read more$12 Million for Indigenous Arts, Culture and Heritage in the Northern Territory
The Australian Government is investing more than $12 million to support a number of Indigenous arts, culture and heritage projects in the Northern Territory, the Minister for Arts and Heritage,...
08 Jun 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreBatchelor bailout: $8.9m for education institute
The Federal Government is confident millions of dollars of additional funds provided to the Batchelor Institute will help secure the Indigenous education institute's future.The Government has committed $8.9 million to...
08 Jun 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreYolngu Song to Play Across America for One Week
Indigenous singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has scored a deal with a major coffee store chain in the United States. For a week in July, Yunupingu's single "Wiyathul" will be...
04 Jun 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreIndigenous Education
A new study has shown an increase in the number of indigenous students travelling interstate to finish school.
04 Jun 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreIngkerr anyent-antey: The Language of Batik
This exhibition is a celebration of the Utopia women’s strength and continuity –- an interweaving of art, language and awely (women’s performance arts). It affirms their connection to...
03 Jun 2010 Batchelor Institute, Northern Territory
Read moreTV Helps Aboriginal Language Revival
Here's a statistic I find pretty sobering: of more than 200 Indigenous languages spoken on the Australian continent before European settlement, fewer than 20 are still in daily use, and even...
03 Jun 2010 Western Australia News
Read moreYorke Peninsula Schools Revive Lost Language
AN Aboriginal language on the verge of disappearing has been revived with the help of several Yorke Peninsula schools. Teachers and senior secondary students from Kadina, Moonta, Maitland and Stansbury...
02 Jun 2010 South Australia News
Read moreOur Languages in Victorian School's
The Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages has been working with Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) on a the...
01 Jun 2010 Victorian News
Read moreTV Show Teaches Aboriginal Language to Kids
A TELEVISION channel is broadcasting the first lessons in an Aboriginal language aimed at young children, in a bid to stem an alarming decline that wiped out hundreds...
10 May 2010 Western Australia News
Read moreResearching your own language from your own remote NT community? Kah-mon!
Greg Dickson writes on the Crikey Language blog:Talking about language in Australia isn’t all about discussing Australianisms, etymologies and bitching about prescriptivists and linguisticians. There’s a small...
09 May 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreFamily ties a barrier to Indigenous justice: interpreter
ABC News reports: Indigenous language interpreter says kinship ties are presenting major difficulties for courts and denying Aboriginal defendants fair hearings. He also says low wages for interpreters are a...
15 Apr 2010 South Australia News
Read moreBolivian Military Police Chiefs to Learn Indian Languages
The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said Friday that command-level officers in the Bolivian military and police will be required to learn one of the Andean nation’s indigenous languages in...
14 Apr 2010 International
Read moreMiromaa Training begins at Thursday Island
We have just started today and the workshop is going great. The Thursday Island mob are very excited and couldn't help but comment that a black fella must've come up...
13 Apr 2010 Torres Strait Islands News
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