In many areas of northern and central Australia, language loss has been accompanied by language genesis. Indigenous youth are creating new languages which combine the sounds, words and grammar from ...

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The Kriol Baibul is, as the name suggests, in the Kriol language spoken by around 30,000 Aboriginal Australians. It's a joint project of The Bible Society, Lutheran Bible Translators, The Church ...

The Kriol & Contact Languages Workshop supports communities to develop the newest and most widely used language in Northern Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. Kriol is the largest language ...

In Ngukurr, a remote Aboriginal town in the Northern Territory, little remains of the area’s seven traditional languages. Like hundreds of languages once spoken across Australia, colonisation has ...

Guinea-Bissau covers an area of 36,135 square kilometres. Its population of less than one million inhabitants speak over 15 languages. Fula, Balanta, Mangingo and Pepel are some of the most important ...

It’s not a trivia question I’ve come across. But if someone asked: “which language, only found in Australia, is spoken over an area the size of Spain and is the second most common language in the ...

Little J and Levi are convinced there's a mystical creature living in the playground. Spoken in the Indigenous language of Roper Kriol. Little J and Big Cuz are worried when Old Dog goes missing.

Indigenous youth are creating new languages, something that is very rare across the globe. Flickr/Rusty Stewart, CC BY-SA By now we know that traditional Indigenous languages are losing speakers ...