Documenting and Revitalizing Indigenous Languages (DRIL) program

What is the Documenting and Revitalising Indigenous Languages program?

The Documenting and Revitalizing Indigenous Languages (DRIL) Program has been created by the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity to support the long-term maintenance of Australian Aboriginal languages.

This innovative training program is available free of charge to Aboriginal and mainland Torres Strait Islander people in communities and organisations who want to develop, run and manage their own language projects. The people who take part in this program also learn to share their skills with other people in their own communities and organisations. In this way, more and more people will have the skills to develop and run their own language projects.

Learn more about DRIL

You can learn more about the DRIL training program by clicking here or by downloading a copy of the DRIL booklet (PDF).

DRIL participants

The DRIL program is currently supporting these communities and organisations.

Coming soon!

We are in the process of developing nationally accredited Certificate III in Aboriginal Languages for Communities and Workplaces, and Certificate IV in Documenting and Revitalising an Indigenous Language, which we hope to make available in 2013. The non-accredited, Flexible pathway will continue to be offered alongside the accredited pathway.

DRIL staff and Consultation Group

Follow this link to learn more about the DRIL trainers, and the Consultation Group members who are helping us develop the accredited pathway for DRIL.

Documenting and Revitalising Indigenous Languages Resource Room

Participants in training workshops are given login access to the DRIL Resource Room. This site provides details of each workshop and video and PDF learning resources for each DRIL module.

Contact RNLD

Please contact RNLD if you are interested in participating in this training program.