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Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages / Year 3 to 6 / Understanding / Language variation and change

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Curriculum content descriptions

Recognise that languages change over time

[Key concepts: regional languages, language shift, language loss, borrowing and relatedness; Key processes: identifying, recognising]

(ACLFWU104)

Elaborations

identifying words that are the same as or similar to words in neighbouring languages
understanding ways in which languages influence one another, for example, language shift, language loss, shared writing systems and concepts, loan words
discussing loan words that have been incorporated from other languages to describe new concepts, for example, words for new things, including technological innovations
understanding that language and culture together continually change as a result of contact with other languages and cultures

General capabilities

Intercultural understanding

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Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages / Year 3 to 6 / Understanding / Language variation and change

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