Pama Language Centre

Uncle Shorty on top of the beach

Uncle Shorty steps on to the global stage

Uncle Shorty Apudthinngal Wuchama - Uncle Shorty and the Three Snakes - a Yadhaykenu song ...
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Boat out in the water

Mpakwithi language to be heard around the world

November will be an exciting month for Pama Language Centre and the Mpakwithi Ancestral Language ...
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Language for life

Pama language Centre has embarked on an important initiative to enhance health education in Cape ...
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Pama Language Centre Team with puppet

Pama Language Centre Wins 2024 John Oxley Library Award

Pama Language Centre was recently awarded the 2024 John Oxley Library Community History Award. This ...
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Bringing Wik Mungkan to Rockhampton Classrooms

Intergenerational transmission is an internationally recognised measure of a language's strength or endangerment. Many languages ...
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Using Augmented Reality to learn traditional language

Immersing Yourself in Traditional Language to Preserve it

Learning a traditional language, like any language, is difficult. Immersing yourself in it during the ...
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Painted Stories: Linking country

Painted Stories: Linking country, art and culture for language revival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hc_riKrGwc In the Painted Stories film, narrator Vera Koomeeta (Wik-Alken and Wik-Mungkan) tells of the ...
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A Personal Journey: Monash University Student Internship with Pama Language Centre

A Personal Journey: Monash University Student Internship with Pama Language Centre

As a student of linguistics at Monash University I recently completed a three-week placement with ...
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Revitalising Kulkalgaw Ya

Pama Language Centre linguist Xavier Barker and Monash University intern Imogen Genest travelled to Poruma ...
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Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo'

Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word ‘kangaroo’

An Indigenous language that has survived for more than 50,000 years and gave Australia the ...
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