Laura Rademaker received funding from the Northern Territory History Grants Scheme, Australian Research Theology Foundation and Cushwa Centre. Linguistically speaking, Australia is special. With ...

With some Australian Aboriginal languages facing extinction, the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) has adopted Microsoft SharePoint and Access to help its work to preserve one ...

COFFS HARBOUR, Australia, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Whirling barefoot in a sand circle, Clark Webb leads a class of school children as they dance to clapsticks and the songs of the Gumbaynggirr, an ...

Learn the Aboriginal English meaning for MOB, CHARGED UP, DEADLY and GAMMIN. Plus, find out what's the difference between ...

They could be the oldest population of humans living outside of Africa—yet Australia has still never made a treaty with Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Australians are all related to a common group ...

MR. DAWSON, a settler of old standing in the district west of Melbourne, and his daughter, Mrs. Taylor, who has been familiar from childhood with several native dialects, have in years of careful ...

This study in the methodology of cross-linguistic semantics within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework posits the existence of universal lexico-semantic primitives. Among these are ...

In this boot camp, students learn to take risks and get “messy” — by studying grammar, that is. Claire Bowern, professor of linguistics, conceived of the Grammar Boot Camp several ago as a way of ...

Australia's Catholic bishops have approved a liturgy incorporating elements of Aboriginal language and culture, marking what some liturgists are hailing as a lived expression of the Second Vatican ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...