Associate Professor Nick Thieberger

Principal Fellow, School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

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Research

Fifty words at a time, this project is helping to preserve Australia’s Indigenous languages

The 50 Words Project is documenting Australia’s Indigenous languages by recording 50 everyday words in as many as possible. It now has 100 languages online, free for anyone to explore and learn

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How data expertise is fostering endangered languages

The PARADISEC digital archive model revitalising endangered languages around the Pacific has now been taken up in North America by the Cherokee Nation

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50 words in Australian Indigenous languages

A new online resource – the 50 Words Project – makes words from local Indigenous languages available for every Australian to hear and learn

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Bringing back languages from scraps of paper

The controversial ethnographer Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages in the early 20th century, which would otherwise be lost today; now her papers have been digitised

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Breathing new life into old songs

The Thabi tradition from west Pilbara offers a unique insight into Australian history - researchers are documenting its songs so they can be enjoyed for generations to come

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Islands of language enter virtual reality

Thousands of the world’s languages are endangered, but linguists are breathing new life into them with virtual reality technology