Endangered Languages

Indigenous-led songwriting is helping to celebrate cultural knowledge, revitalise language and improve wellbeing in a remote community in the central Kimberley

A language preservation project is working to record and preserve some of China’s minority languages to ensure they don’t die out

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

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

The many indigenous languages spoken in remote communities in Australia’s far North promotes multilingualism - but how those languages are passed is bound up in custom and tradition

Opportunities for open dialogue are the key to healing societies

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