The dictionary is a living, breathing and evolving record of how language is wrapped up in who we are as Australians. It is ...

The mass death of Australian languages has proven to be the perfect laboratory for studying language decline and the effects it has had on Indigenous communities.

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has announced the acceptance of newly recognised English language tests for visa ...

The number of First Nations languages being actively "re-awakened" is expected to have doubled in the past five years.

Noah Webster published “An American Dictionary of the English Language” in 1828. But the first serious look at the Australian language, by Sidney Baker, a New Zealander, came out in 1945.

Tiwi, an Australian language isolate, is spoken on the Tiwi Islands which are near the Northern Territory of Australia, according to Omniglot. Some of Tiwi’s different names are Diwi, Wongak, and ...

Even as Australia steps up its engagement in the Asia-Pacific region few Australians are learning languages that reflect their place in the Asian century. Currently 12.8 percent of students in ...

In Australia, around 130 indigenous languages have died out since Europeans invaded the continent in 1788. A blank spot on the new coin is designed to represent those languages that have been lost.

Chinese language community news groups in Australia are publishing news censored by translators they use in China to avoid potential repercussions in Beijing, an Australian think tank said.