Understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language ecologies

该项目旨在通过调查哪些语言在哪里被使用(语言生态)，以及它们如何影响人们的生活，来促进整个澳大利亚对土著语言的理解。该项目计划与土著合作研究人员一起，阐明语言生态的当代和历史特征。它的意义在于弥合了土著人民对语言的理解与政策制定者在这方面缺乏良好数据之间的鸿沟。预期的结果是关于语言使用的更好的经验数据和识别语言生态的新方法。预期的好处包括增加对土著语言使用丰富历史的认识，使政策制定者有新的能力区分语言生态。

The project aims to advance understandings of Indigenous languages across Australia by investigating which languages are used where (‘language ecologies’), and how they impact on people's lives. With Indigenous co-researchers, the project plans to illuminate present and historical features of language ecologies. Its significance is in bridging a chasm between Indigenous people's understandings of languages, and a lack of good data on this for policy-makers. Expected outcomes are better empirical data on language use and new methods for identifying language ecologies. Intended benefits include increased appreciation of the rich history of Indigenous language use, leading to new capacity for policy-makers to distinguish language ecologies.