First Languages Australia short with Ashleigh Clarke & Karina Barney talking about their language Butchulla.

Parts of the body in Butchulla

First Languages Australia short with Callum Clayton-Dixon speaking about the Anaywan 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 …

First Languages Australia short with Sally Baisden speaking Yugambeh. This beautiful series of shorts from First Languages Australia celebrate Indigenous languages, and the people who speak them, keep them alive and help others to learn more about Indigenous language.

Mother Tongue series: Greetings in Dhurga

Across Australia there are hundreds of different Aboriginal languages, some that are still spoken fluently across generations, and others that are endangered, and are in the process of being revived or preserved. But what’s involved in keeping these ancient languages alive, …

Iwaidja speakers are working together with school teachers and linguists from the University of Western Sydney, the Université de Paris and the ARDS Aboriginal Corporation, Darwin, to get more children on Croker Island to speak Iwaidja. Here, children from Mamaruni School …

Mother Tongue series: Body Parts in Yuwibara