language

Australia is keen to engage with its nearest neighbours in Southeast Asia, but is backsliding on learning the region’s languages.

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Looking ahead to next 50 years of the ASEAN-Australia partnership.

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Fires are changing so does that mean the way we refer to them should too? It could soon be a hot topic.

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The very regions richest in languages are the ones most at risk of climate-induced language loss.

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Forced migration is a major cause of language extinction. Environmental disasters are driving these displacements in the very regions richest in languages.

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Vanuatu’s rampaging cyclones are the latest extreme event to threaten the country’s cultural records. A digitisation project could be key to protecting them.

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The displacement of communities due to climate change can have unexpected impacts on the language landscape of a region.

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The refugee as ‘other’ has emerged as a common theme in literature from India’s north-east, after the region saw an influx of people following 1947’s Partition.

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English has become the dominant language used across global business, science, diplomacy and the internet, but it creates an unfair advantage.

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Malaysia’s Indigenous language Bidayuh is declining in use and it will take a concerted effort to ensure competing languages don’t cause its demise.

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Converting classrooms into an all English-speaking environment takes away children’s opportunities to develop crucial skills in their home languages.

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