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Welcome to the Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre
(The Languages Centre) |
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| As part of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre plays a key role in the preservation and revival of Aboriginal languages in the state.
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 Click HERE to search the Online Language Archive. |
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Background to the Language Centre |
For Aboriginal people, language is critical to maintaining, strengthening and asserting cultural identity.
The Language Centre is helping to preserve and revive Aboriginal languages in New South Wales.
Through this site, you can:
· Find out what the Language Centre is currently doing and who is involved.
· Ask for help with language preservation and revitalisation.
· Find references to publications available from the Language Centre or included in the Online Language Archive.
· Find links to community and government organisations, school programs and written resources relevant to language research and other matters of interest to Aboriginal communities in NSW. |
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“Language is our Soul”
Aunty Rose Fernando
“Language is very important to us, it is our connection to our ancestors and for those of us who still use our language can connect with the ancestors of the past. We belong to the land without the land we are nothing. Our life blood comes from the land and what is of the land. Language holds secrets to the connection of the land”.
Aunt Phyllis Darcy, Awabakal Descendant
“Aboriginal languages were here before we came, they are here now and they’ll be here long after we’ve gone”.
Brother John Wright, Principal St Joseph’s Primary School, Walgett
“Language goes to the very core of one’s identity and Aboriginal languages contain, embedded in them, much of the culture, social values and world view of its speakers”.
Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, 1992
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