Languages

Neil Morris aka DRMNGNOW shares three Yort Yorta words —  including one that demonstrates the connection Yorta Yorta mob have between goodness and beauty.

Kayardild is the language from Bentinck Island in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria.

Paul Ah Chee shares three words from his maternal grandmother's language — Yankuntjatjara.

Kaelene McMillan shares three Adnyamathna words, including the word for 'rainbow'.

Wirangu teen Mia Speed say she treasures the difference her book is making to empower and inspire her younger family members.

Head to Yankunytjatjara Country to catch up with Karina Lester and her daughter Larissa. 

For Word Up, Yankunytjatjara speakers Karina Lester and her daughter Larissa take you back to north west of South Australia to share the word for dog — tjutju.

Yankunytjatjara speakers Karina Lester and her daughter Larissa share a word that describes a precious commodity on their Country — water.

Moana 2 is the first film in history to be released in both English and an Indigenous language at the same time.

Meet Karina Lester and her daughter Larissa from Yankunytjatjara Country. Karina is Co-Manager & Senior Aboriginal Language Worker at The University of Adelaide’s Mobile Language Team and Larissa has her own language series online.

An extraordinary map has been created to record Noongar place names of significant Perth locations and how people lived on the land prior to colonisation.

Jane Edwards shares the Nyigina word for 'country'. 

The Kimberley region of Western Australia is the only place in the country where boab trees grow. Here, they are prolific.

Jane Edwards is in Derby in the west Kimberley sharing some of her language: Nyigina.  Last week, she shared the Nyigina word for a great-grandmother. This week, she’s focusing on a different family member.