How to save a languageTwo great new projects for language just got research funding, which is critical when 90% of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages are endangered, writes Claire Bowern.
Indigenous language
Indigenous languages can’t be stuck in a jar to ‘preserve’
A language isn’t just a dialect, it is a whole way of looking at the world, the universe…writes editor of Bookseller+Publisher Matthia Dempsey.
Miaili, Rembarrnga, Ngalakgan, Dalabon, Jawoyn: save these languages
We nurse a deep failure to appreciate the value of Australia’s unique linguistic diversity and the lost opportunities resulting from an entrenched “deep monolingualism”.
