Even as Australia steps up its engagement in the Asia-Pacific region few Australians are learning languages that reflect their place in the Asian century. Currently 12.8 percent of students in year 12 ...

From, "chucking a sickie" to "having a yarn," these Aussie slang terms deserve a global audience.

Tiwi, an Australian language isolate, is spoken on the Tiwi Islands which are near the Northern Territory of Australia, according to Omniglot. Some of Tiwi’s different names are Diwi, Wongak, and ...

Michael Christie receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Dr Brian Devlin works for Charles Darwin University, which is a partner in the Living Archive Project, funded by the Australian ...

Scientists have further evidence that an ancient family of languages spread across most of the Australian continent over the last 6000 years, rapidly replacing pre-existing languages. But the puzzle ...

Maïa Ponsonnet has received funding from the Australian Research Council (Australian) and from the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (France). UNESCO’s International Year of Indigenous Languages ...

If you were to ask me two years ago what my favorite language family was, I would have said that I couldn’t pick one. I would say that because I believe that every language family is interesting in ...