Former President Trump's English-only mandate sparked concern among Indigenous language advocates. Despite historical suppression, Indigenous language revitalization efforts are gaining momentum.

Celeste Rodriguez Louro receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Glenys Dale Collard is affiliated with Mallee Aboriginal Corporation. Aboriginal English is spoken by an estimated 80% of ...

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 34, No. 2 (December 2004), pp. 175-200 (26 pages) Traditionally, phonological theory has held that the CV syllable is the basic syllable type ...

Celeste Rodriguez Louro receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Glenys Dale Collard is affiliated with University of Western Australia and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation. Indigenous ...

The audio is scratchy and distorted, sounding at times like it is being spoken through a wall. Yet the voice speaking is high and proud, with long, stretched syllables in English. When she breaks into ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

Indigenous researchers and roboticists are crafting innovative tools to help save endangered dialects Serena Jampel More than a third of the world’s over 6,000 languages are at risk of extinction, and ...

Australia’s historical and ongoing treatment of First Nations people is embarrassing, disturbing, and downright shameful. Our understanding of First Australians’ communities, culture and language is ...