Adelaide Language Festival


The Adelaide Language Festival is a language festival that celebrates linguistic diversity and encourages people to learn about the cognitive and cultural advantages of multilingualism. It consists of keynote presentations, musical performances, Welcome to Country by a local Aboriginal Australian, and intensive sessions in dozens of languages.
The Festival was founded in 2014 by Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Professor of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide. It is held at Bonython Hall, University of Adelaide.
Each Adelaide Language Festival attracts approximately 500 people.

Languages represented

The Adelaide Language Festival is known for its representation of revived, engineered, endangered and other Less Commonly Taught Languages. It has included intensive sessions of more than 40 languages:
Each language session, a.k.a. "crash course", provides the audience with the following:
Keynote speakers have included Roland Sussex, Lynn Arnold, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Christopher Pyne and Jeffrey Shandler.