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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
Noonkanbah: Fight For Aboriginal Land Rights
DICKIE COX REMEMBERS HOLDING up the Aboriginal flag as he was being arrested in a protest that was to become a famous rights issue. It was 30 years...
07 Sep 2010 Western Australia News
Read moreWangka Maya open day
The language centre has been busy rebuilding and recovering from the devastating fire that gutted part of the new building last year. Repairs are now complete. “We encourage people to visit...
05 Sep 2010 Western Australia News
Read moreWhat's In a Name? Fame or Notoriety For Explorer
Disrespectful humour and mental illness led to the downfall of this German historian, writes Steve Meacham. HE IS Australia's forgotten explorer. An enigmatic adventurer who in 10 short years...
03 Sep 2010 National News
Read moreSaving First Nations Languages From Extinction
Having been asked to write a piece on First Nations' issues relevant to the current election campaign I responded by pointing out that First Nations people cannot participate...
03 Sep 2010 International
Read moreIt's All In a Name
THERE'S AN AGE OLD question: What's in a name? Well, apparently when it comes to names of geographical places you have to delve beneath the surface. There are an estimated four...
02 Sep 2010 National News
Read moreIsrael Sponsors Dubbo Indigenous Languages Hub
The Embassy of Israel is financing an IT centre that will give Indigenous Australians a new way to share their traditional stories. The Allira Aboriginal Knowledge IT Centre opens...
02 Sep 2010 New South Wales News
Read moreThe Verdict is Finally In: Language Informs the Way We Think
Since the beginning of recorded history, poets and philosophers have suspected that language speaks us more than we speak language. Science tried in the...
02 Sep 2010 International
Read moreIndigenous Australia Bolsters Film, Sound Archive
The project to preserve important and iconic parts of Australia's film and sound history has been expanded again this year to include new pointers to the evolution of...
31 Aug 2010 National News
Read moreCan Do Better: the UN verdict, yet again, on discrimination in the land of the
Every five years, Australia is birched by the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Canberra took it terribly badly in 2000 and 2005 when John Howard...
30 Aug 2010 National News
Read moreIndigenous Lore and Law Focus
Could the teaching of the Kabi Kabi language become part of the Coast’s school curriculum? And if not the whole language, would it benefit the Coast community overall to learn...
29 Aug 2010 Queensland News
Read moreDoes Your Language Shape How You Think?
Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At...
26 Aug 2010 International
Read moreRedfern Speech enters 'Sounds of Australia'
The project to preserve important and iconic moments from Australia's film and sound history has been expanded for the fourth year to include, among other things, some new...
26 Aug 2010 National News
Read moreLanguage Matters
IT IS that time of the year when we are prompted to revisit language issues in our society. In what language should we educate our children? What language...
19 Aug 2010 International
Read moreMaking Connections Across the Desert
Spread across three states and thousands of hectares of arid land lie the Ngaanyatjaara lands, much of it in WA's Western Desert. Home to about 2,500 people, it is...
18 Aug 2010 Western Australia News
Read moreTeaching Children to Read the Aboriginal World
Dog school Wanja is a riot of a story — ten pages, 114 words — about a blue heeler who lives on The Block in Sydney's Redfern. The book was...
18 Aug 2010 New South Wales News
Read moreHuge Collection of Written Legal Texts in Māori Now Available
A large collection of written legal texts in Māori was recently made available online. This is one of several key outputs of the Legal Māori Project, co-led by Māmari...
17 Aug 2010 International
Read moreGold Coast Corroboree 2010
A few hundred locals got together over the weekend to celebrate Aboriginal culture at the Yugambeh Corroboree. Visitors had the chance to learn some Yugambeh words and songs, taste some bush...
17 Aug 2010 Queensland News
Read moreWhen one death endangers a language
A language dies every 14 days, and half those spoken today are expected to vanish by 2100. The secret language of the Kallawaya, in central South America, is more than...
14 Aug 2010 International
Read moreDeep Breath of Culture in Yolngu Country
WITH cool precision and grace, Rrawun Maymuru slips his acoustic guitar over his shoulder as he takes to the stage. At Garma, a festival of indigenous culture...
10 Aug 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreAn Intimate Portrayal of Loss and Hope
As he moves through his academic life in busy Melbourne, anthropologist John Bradley holds the songlines of the coastal country around remote Borroloola in the forefront of his...
07 Aug 2010 Northern Territory News
Read moreAboriginal education needs a legal framework, says NDP
DUNCAN, BC– New Democrat MP Jean Crowder (Nanaimo-Cowichan) hopes today’s meeting between Aboriginal leaders and the Premiers will be a catalyst for a change in how education is delivered to...
04 Aug 2010 International
Read moreMaori in Australia Losing Language
The large number of Maori living in Australia face losing their native language in part because they assimilate so easily, according to findings by a Victoria University researcher. One...
29 Jul 2010 International
Read moreThe 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 moreRemembering history
Why has indigenous policy in this country failed? The federal government must realise that what looks good in Canberra looks very different in Kowanyama or the Kimberley. To answer that question,...
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
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