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 …
First Languages Australia short with Roy McDonnell speaking about the Injinoo Ikya 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 …
Mother Tongue series: A conversation in Bundjalung.
Watch the video, test your language skills and learn a bit of the mother tongue of some of the NSW north coast Aboriginal peoples.
Check how you went. Here's the translation.
Bianca: Hello
Dean: Hello
Bianca: Are you …
First Languages Australia short with Maritza Roberts speaking Marra.
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.
First Languages Australia short with Con Miller speaking about the Wirangu 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 languages. …
First Languages Australia short with Ruth James, Shaniah Thomason, Robert Mitchell, and Deborah Sandy speaking about the Yugara-Yugarapul language.
First Languages Australia is a national organisation working with community language programs around the country to support the …
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, …
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