From a childhood of violence and drugs, to a devastating loss in his teens, Jack Buckskin has travelled a hard road to revive his langauge. Now he’s spreading the word in SA classrooms. It comes as ...

Aboriginal students who learn their traditional language become more confident, have more pride in their identity and find a passion for learning, a committee heard yesterday. For non-Aboriginal ...

Kanyanyapilla means "place of many eagles", and it's where Indigenous students in Adelaide are coming to connect with Kaurna ...

Kaurna man Jack Kanya Buckskin dreams of a day when he boards a bus and the driver or a passenger automatically says something like "ninna marni", the Kaurna phrase for "are you good?". It's a dream ...

The result is the culmination of more than 20 years of painstaking research into the dormant ­language, which has allowed a new generation of Aboriginal men to revive the tongue of their ancestors.

Much has been written about the need for ecological diversity to maintain a balanced ecosystem. Yet in Adelaide, in the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Languages, an equally profound revolution is taking ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains is being revitalised and it's the younger generations who ...

A version of this story, by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi and Karina Lester, Mobile Language Team, was first published as a case study on First Languages Australia's guide “Warra: Building teams, building ...

In a different spin on language learning, a South Australian community has hosted a cycling event to help rekindle a dwindling language. The inaugural Cycling for Culture ride aimed to revive the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The world's languages are dying at a rate of one a fortnight, but an Aboriginal tongue has been brought back to life. MUCH has been ...