The language is spoken by people in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands, where South Australia abuts the Northern Territory. Pitjantjatjara also has free word order, but unlike ...

A Brit couple who moved from Manchester to Australia have named some of the 'bizarre changes' that they are still not used to ...

A crisis of language is a crisis of culture, and to see why there is waning interest in one, we must identify how we relate ...

Takataka is not related to Auslan, the most widespread deaf community sign language used in Australia. However, some influences from Auslan can be seen in recent innovations to Gurindji sign.

Language City. By Ross Perlin. Atlantic Monthly Press; 432 pages; $28. Grove Press; £12.99 O F the world’s 7,000-odd languages, almost half are expected to disappear by the end of the 21st century.