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 ...

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 ...

Languages and genes can tell us stories of the past. The genetic differences between Indigenous Australian communities are not well understood but are hypothesized to reflect their linguistic ...

Around 40 percent of the more than 7,000 languages spoken globally are considered endangered, and with the start of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages only six months away, Indigenous ...

ON OCTOBER 14th nearly 18m Australians will vote in a referendum on whether to give indigenous people a “Voice to Parliament”. They will decide whether to enshrine in their constitution the ...

Shino Konishi receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Prior to colonisation there were approximately 250 different Aboriginal languages spoken by some 500 clans throughout Australia.