First Languages Australia short with Cygnet Repu speaking about the Kala lagaw Ya language -Mabuyag dialect . First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of …

Sian Lee is the Indigenous Student Services Officer at LaTrobe University, Mildura campus. Sian Lee has memories of learning to speak Barkindji as a child. This is what first sparked her passion for language and lead her to a career in teaching and linguistics. This is …

'This Place' is a partnership between the ABC and First Languages Australia inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create a short video about a place name, and the story behind it. Share with ICTV with support from the Community Benefit Fund. Underneath the …

Western Desert Verbal Arts Project Collection From 2012 - 2017 Ngaatjatjarra linguist Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis worked with Inge Kral and Jennifer Green to document the endangered verbal arts of the Australian Western Desert. The Western Desert dialects spoken in the …

First Languages Australia short with Victoria Kennedy speaking about the Anguthimiri language. First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the continued use and recognition of Australia’s first …

When Aunty Lee Healy decided to make the first dictionary for the Taungurung language, she didn’t know what she was in for. The dictionary took four years to make and Aunty Lee says, “I don’t think my mind stopped.” “It became my passion. I would get up at 3.30 in …

John Waterton, who teaches the Bidyara and Gungabula languages in the community of Woorabinda, tells us the names of some native Australian animals. Produced by John Waterton and Lisa Clarke This video was originally contributed to the ABC Open Mother Tongue project, which …

A few people speak the Indigenous Djabuguy language fluently. Michael Quinn, an Englishman, is one of them. It was 1986 when he arrived in the Far North Queensland town of Kuranda with his young family. Before this he had been living in Sydney where he studied a four year …