Noongar Stories Resonate Across Time
In 1931 a young graduate student fresh from the University of Chicago undertook extensive research on a…
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Mid-West Group Gets Helping Hand to Preserve Indigenous Language
A mid-west Western Australian Aboriginal group has secured a Commonwealth grant that is designed to help preserve…
Indigenous Languages: Calls For Protection
For many, the struggle of indigenous people goes unrecognised, but for the indigenous community, they fear one…
Aboriginal Languages and Stories to be Preserved in Recordings
Some of Western Australia’s threatened Aboriginal languages are to be recorded as part of a program to…
Noongar ‘Wikipedia’ helps preserve language
West Australian academics are hoping a new online project will help keep the Noongar language alive.…
New media to throw a lifeline to an ancient language
A new project will create the world’s first Aboriginal online encyclopedia as a way of preserving the…
Order of Australia for Kimberley Linguist
Broome based linguist Joyce Hudson AM credits ‘stickability’ for her long career with Aboriginal languages in the…
WA Local Hero
Denise Smith-Ali has been awarded Western Australia’s Local Hero 2014 for her tireless work as a linguist.…