Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander - Languages

Digital Technologies with an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Focus

Noongarpedia - researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language.

Austlang is an Australian Indigenous Languages Database that provides information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages from a number of sources.

Apps

Minjilang Endangered languages publication project - Croker Island North East Arnhem Land NT.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ma-iwaidja/id557824618?mt=8

Everyday phrases & words in Anindilyakwa & English from Groote Eylandt region, Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Territory Australia. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ntlanguages-anindilyakwa/id585478474?mt=8

Window to the culture of the Nyoongar, the traditional custodians of the South Western Australia lands.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/sharing-the-dreaming/id642267711?ignmpt=uo%3D5

Yugambeh Aboriginal language from the Gold Coast, Logan & Scenic Rim regions of QLD.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/yugambeh/id625720632?mt=8

How technology is being used to share and preserve First Australian languages - Social Ventures AustraliaThe Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation is working to strengthen and preserve Indigenous languages in Australia.

Literature

How technology is being used to share and preserve First Australian languages

Living archive of Aboriginal Languages

http://laal.cdu.edu.au/

Using authentic language resources to incorporate Indigenous knowledges across the Australian Curriculum

To save a dying language

Yolngu Dictionary

Resources

Teacher resources: Indigenous language materialsThe promotion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures as a cross-curriculum priority in the Australian Curriculum provides both a challenge and an opportunity for teachers. Cathy Bow shares resources and discusses how they can be embedded into different contexts.

How 'word detectives' are helping ancient languages wake from a deep sleepAll over the country all but 20 of the 250 Indigenous languages are highly endangered, but now they are finding a new voice.

Miriwoong Language Nest | Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerringThe Miriwoong Language Nest is currently teaching Miriwoong to 400 children a week throughout Kununurra through songs, games and engaging activities.

Created using software available from:

http://www.miromaa.org.au/home/about-us.html

Kids are keeping Aboriginal languages alive — and learning just how different they areSchools are helping protect Australia's first languages through the simple act of singing.

The Aboriginal language taught more than Spanish in NSW schoolsThree Aboriginal languages appeared in the top 15 languages studied in NSW government primary schools for the first time last year.

Original languages preserved in appHedland has taken up the fight to preserve some of the world’s oldest living and extinct languages, by turning them into educational phone apps.

Indigenous knowledge and digital skills equip students for sustained successEducation is the best foundation for future success, and in the 21st century success will require digital skills, experience in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths), and an ability to collaborate and to create. But in the race to innovate and transform, it’s critical also to protect and preserve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language,...

Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languagesAt the Maningrida football Grand Final in 2015, commentary was recorded in nine languages. But elsewhere, the threat of language loss poses a serious risk to our nation’s cultural inheritance.

Meet the man saving his language from extinctionIn remote Western Australia, a small language and cultural centre is reviving an ancient Indigenous language.

50 words: From hello to kangaroo, new map of Indigenous languages of AustraliaSpoken for thousands of years, nobody had used it in everyday life for nearly 150 years.

blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2019/11/04/2019-international-year-of-indigenous-languages/

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