Asian Language

Language is a highly significant aspect of aboriginal culture. Individual tribes each have their own unique language and an extremely high importance is placed on handing down stories from generation to generation. There is a lot that can be learnt from aboriginal culture and their use of language and applied to our use of language in modern day Australia. As technology becomes more and more entrenched in our every day lives and how we educate future generations, we distance ourselves from the ways previous generations have used language. In Aboriginal culture stories and lessons from the past have been passed down through multiple generations without losing their meaning in translation.

As I have already mentioned, Singapore has four official languages: English, Tamil, Mandarin and Malay. It was so historically formed that the official language of Singapore is Malay and the national anthem is also written in Malay language. English is the administration language of Singapore and it is mainly British English, but also contain some American English influences. English remains the first language medium in schools and colleges of the country, and is also the most widespread language in the literature. All signs and official publications are written in English, but there are also versions translated into other official languages. But the population doesn’t speak English, but so-called Singlish with Creole characteristics, Chinese dialects, and Indian and Malay languages.

Details: Australia and New Guinea are separated only by the narrow, and island-filled Torres Strait and Arafura Sea. But in all other ways, they are radically different. Australia is flat and mostly very dry. It has the most erratic climate and weather of any continent, with the seasonal pattern often disrupted by ocean currents. New Guinea is mountainous, wet, and with a stable climate. These geographic differences led to differences in development in the two hemi-continents - New Guinea is divided into many many small tribes. Of the 6,000 languages spoken

In Aboriginal culture the language isn’t only a form of communication, it is used to mark territory. It is possible that people from tribe only fifty kilometres away cannot understand the other tribes language at all.

Hmong is a minority language of the ‎Hmong–Mien‎ language family and it is spoken by approximately three million people. It has no official status in the countries in which it is spoken, which include China, Vietnam, Lao, Burma, Thailand, France, and the United States. The language consists of a number of dialects due to the widespread speaker-base, many of which are immensely distinct from one another and thus could be considered separate languages.

Additionally, the use of Standard English is a national norm in multicultural countries like Australia. Australia’s language diversity lies in the eighteen percent of people speaking a language other than English at home, including Aboriginal English (forms of English spoken by Aboriginal people). Standard English is a variety or dialect of English that is uniform in formal and informal speech and writing used by the educated, with distinct features of accent, grammar, words and meaning, including voice quality, rhythm and language use (Emmit, Zbaracki, Komesaroff, & Pollock, 2010, p. 40). The purpose of this report is to discuss the role of language in early years (before school) and later years (school attending years) of a child’s life. Halliday (1975). Wilkinson (1982) and Tough (1977) as sited in Fellows (2014) formulated systems to categorise language function. The functions will be highlighted thought out this report, specifically in early stages (before school) and later stages (school attending years). Including the role of language in communication, cultural influences, and the identity of a child and how language can

The group Black Bear Singers is a drum group from the Manawan community. They described their genre as “northern contemporary” (Black Bear Singers) They often sing in their native tongue because they “are very proud of our culture and our heritage, as well as our language which is still commonly spoken

The film Linguists is a very unique exploration into the indigenous cultures and the prevalence of their languages. Researchers Gregory and David examine endangered languages in several regions to further understand the different ways the human mind can make sense of the world around it. Linguists covers a diverse range of topics regarding the importance of language to culture, the number of languages that are

Recently, researchers working on a project geared toward the cataloging of basic word lists of the endangered aboriginal tongues in Australia, “met the sole living speaker of Amurdag, a language in the Northern Territory that has already been declared extinct” (Wilford, John Noble). It is doubtful that the language can be brought back, as the speaker “strained to recall words he had last heard from his late father” (Wilford, John Noble) but researchers were at least able to make a record of it.

If a country doesn’t have an official language is usually due to distinct historical or cultural reasons. As I began reading articles on this topic, I was amazed that the great country I live in doesn’t have

Pidgins are generally spoken as a second language when mutually unintelligible languages are in close contact (Carroll, 2008). They reflect an individual’s ability to adapt communicative techniques by learning a limited amount of basic vocabulary from one language and supplementing that with vocabulary from another language they are characterized as having a simplified syntax (grammar) (Alleyne, 1966). Although, there is some debate as to what the difference between a pidgin and a creole is, it is generally accepted that creoles are spoken as a first language evolving from a pidgin and are therefore more complex with regards to syntax then a pidgin but still simplified compared to the root language(s) (Carroll,

In Australian society, varieties of Australian English create different types of prestige and use and can either be the more standard overt prestige or the more informal and casual covert prestige. Teenspeak is a variety of language that creates covert prestige between groups, while ethnolects are a type of Australian English that leads to a non-standard covert prestige. Broad Australian English is a variety of Australian English in which the accent used also creates large amounts of covert prestige and power. Teenagers are a group of individuals who use language to create an identity.

There are numerous diverse roles that language can participate on a child’s life and development, whether it be throughout the roles that persuade their growth and knowledge of language, the way they are able to establish the many dissimilar forms of language, their knowledge of diverse and standization of their own language as well as others and the impact culture has on a child. The countless roles that language may have on a child could be their understanding of the structural system of language, and they why this shapes their personal and social outcomes. We are able to determine the many different varieties and forms of is through both written and spoken words and having the ability to be able to understand Australians contextual language.

Malay is the largest ethnic group in Malaysia and Malay language is their mother tongue. Malay language is Malaysia’s official language.

other countries, and is the most widely spoken Visayan language. It has four dialects: Cebu, Boholano, Leyte, and Mindanao Visayan.2 Hiligaynon (or Ilonggo) is a Philippine language spoken in Western Visayas, which includes the Panay Island and Negros Occidental, and in many parts of Mindanao. As of the year 2000 consensus of Ethnologue, it has an estimated 6 million speakers.3