Aboriginal language custodians release a road map for the survival and revival of Northern Territory Indigenous languages.

Indigenous Australians experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. They are sick more often, die younger and are at higher risk of serious health complications, including heart ...

As official NAIDOC celebrations get underway across the country, the ABC's Matt Francis asks what is deadly and what does it ...

“I asked it to call one of my sisters, and it then started calling an old boss that I don’t talk to any more.” —Amy, 25, recalling an awkward experience using a voice-operated device. Using voice to ...

Imagine asking someone to move their "left foot" and receiving a puzzled look, not because they misunderstood you, but ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

Of the world's 7,000 languages, it is estimated 50% to 90% will no longer be spoken in the next 50 to 100 years. The majority under threat are languages spoken by Indigenous peoples around the world: ...

Professor Debra Dank has spent four decades proving that Aboriginal English isn’t “broken” but represents sophisticated communication systems that teachers still fail to understand. For Dr Debra Dank, ...

Of the original 250-plus languages and over 750 dialects spoken by First Nations peoples before 1788, only 12 are being learned by children today. However, widely spoken contact languages – creoles ...

More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that transcribe speech into written words. These technologies enable the devices ...