Language documentation

Ancestors' words: Noongar writing in WA government archives (1860-1960s)

This project aims to produce the first account of Noongar letter writing in Western Australian archives from 1860 to 1960.

Noongar kaatdijin bidi: Noongar knowledge networks; or, Why is there no Noongar Wikipedia?

Our main achievement is the Noongarpedia incubator site, currently featuring 680 entries, for a planned Noongar-language version of Wikipedia, with community-developed content and Wikimedia-appropr

Vitality and change in Warlpiri songs at Yuendumu

Vitality and change in Warlpiri songs at Yuendumu.

In the Time of Their Lives. Wangka kutjupa-kutjuparringu: How talk has changed in the Western Desert

The Western Desert Verbal Arts Collection is a unique compilation of audio-visual recordings of the oral traditions and endangered speech styles of the Ngaanyatjarra, Ngaatjatjarra and Pitjantjatja

Aboriginal remote narrowcast TV and the audio-visual archive

This project aims to investigate the world’s best practices in community narrowcast digital TV and contemporary methods for the long-term storage of both digital and analogue audio-visual cultural

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Project

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages project is a digital archive of literature in Australian Indigenous languages from around the Northern Territory.

Hearing histories of the western Pilbara: An interdisciplinary study of Indigenous songs composed in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in the twentieth century and technologies to sustain them into the future 

This project aims to investigate Indigenous song traditions of the western Pilbara through current practice and legacy recordings.

Warriyangga language and knowledge sharing

Ngunhaburra, walybala nhugurrarrija ganyarawu wagabardi. Guwardi, wirribuga waginha yurnu bagalyaninuru waginhiyawu. Language centre nhugaarrarringu ganyarawu wagabardi ngurra bagalya.

Third National Indigenous Languages Survey (NILS3)

The Third National Indigenous Languages Survey (NILS3) sought to answer the question: What is the current state of Indigenous languages in Australia?