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