Endangered Languages

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Arts & Culture

‘The more you tell a story, the stronger the story becomes’

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

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Arts & Culture

Preserving China’s minority languages

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

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Arts & Culture

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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Arts & Culture

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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Arts & Culture

The many voices of the North

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

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Politics & Society

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Podcast

Words and war: The role of the linguist in conflict resolution

Opportunities for open dialogue are the key to healing societies

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Arts & Culture

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