Alitja Rigney (l) and friend at a Kaurna language workshop. (Transcript from SBS World News) From the brink of extinction, a South Australian Aboriginal language is rising phoenix-like into modern ...

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 ...

That's Stephen Gadlabarti Goldsmith's favourite saying in Kaurna language, and it translates in English to "[that] sounds good to me". Mr Goldsmith grew up believing he was Narungga, due to his mother ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The world's languages are dying at a rate of one a fortnight, but an Aboriginal tongue has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cherylynne Catanzariti has been teaching Aboriginal language for almost 30 years but it was not until 2024 that she began leading classes at Kaurna Plains School in Elizabeth, where her mother first ...

Dale Agius, a Kaurna, Narungga, Ngadjuri and Ngarrindjeri man, did not name Mr Bernardi but condemned an “aspiring South Australian political figure” for posts he described as divisive and harmful.