Warlpiri Sign Language, also known as Rdaka-rdaka (lit. hand signs), is a sign language used by the Warlpiri, an Aboriginal community in the central desert...
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The Warlpiri (/ˈwɑːrlbri/ or /ˈwɔːlpəri/) language is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by close to 3,000 of the Warlpiri people from the Tanami...
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The Warlpiri, sometimes referred to as Yapa, are a group of Aboriginal Australians defined by their Warlpiri language, although not all still speak it...
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counterpart in central Australia is Warlpiri Sign Language (Rdaka-rdaka). "Iltyem-iltyem – Australian Indigenous Sign Languages". www.iltyemiltyem.com. Retrieved...
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of an oral language. One of the most elaborated examples of this kind of auxiliary manual system is Warlpiri Sign Language, a complete signed mode of spoken...
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Auslan (redirect from Australian sign language)
of Indigenous Australian sign languages exist, unrelated to Auslan, such as Warlpiri Sign Language and Yolngu Sign Language. They occur in the southern...
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Plains. Sign languages appear to be most developed in areas with the most extensive speech taboos: the central desert (particularly among the Warlpiri and...
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among the Warlpiri, Warumungu, Dieri, Kaytetye, Arrernte, and Warlmanpa, and are based on their respective spoken languages. A sign language arose among...
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Sign Language is a sign language used by the Warumungu, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia. Along with Warlpiri Sign Language...
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Warlpiri than in code-mixing varieties of older Warlpiri speakers, 3) Light Warlpiri is a native language, which indicates stability of the language,...
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Pitjantjatjara (3,399), Warlpiri (2,592), Murrinh Patha (2,063) and Tiwi (2,053). There were also over 10,000 people who spoke an Indigenous language which could...
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many areas within the North Central Territory, documenting the sign languages of the Warlpiri, Waramungu, Mudbura, Anmatyerre, Kaytej, and Djingili, including...
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have (or at one point had) signed forms of their languages. Among the Western Desert peoples, sign language has been reported specifically for Kardutjara...
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some communities. Seven of the most widely spoken Australian languages, such as Warlpiri, Murrinh-patha and Tiwi, retain between 1,000 and 3,000 speakers...
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relationships of sign languages are not well established due to lagging linguistic research, and many are isolates (cf. Wittmann 1991). Constructed language – Consciously...
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Suriname Waray – Winaray, Binisayâ nga Winaray Regional language in: the Philippines Warlpiri – Warlpiri Spoken in: the Australian Northern Territory Warumungu...
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signed form of their language. Barry J. Blake (1979). "Pitta-Pitta". In Robert M. W. Dixon & Barry J. Blake (ed.). Handbook of Australian Languages....
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meeting was spoken, but neighbouring clans might not use the same language, so a sign language was used to indicate the number of days in the future when the...
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(Pitcairn-Norfolk: Norfuk) (increasingly spelt Norfolk) or Norf'k is the language spoken on Norfolk Island (in the Pacific Ocean) by the local residents...
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The Dreaming (category Articles containing Warlpiri-language text)
Tjukurpa/Tjukurrpa by the Warlpiri people and in the Pitjantjatjara dialect Ungud or Wungud by the Ngarinyin people Manguny in the language Martu Wangka Wongar...
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Tiwi Warlpiri Warumungu Wubuy Yan-nhaŋu Yolŋu Matha Indigenous Australian literature Language revival "Home". Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages. Northern...
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Avoidance speech (redirect from Avoidance language)
extended to other family members, such as the mother-in-law's brother in Warlpiri or cross-cousins in Dyirbal. All relations are classificatory – more people...
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law and the Gupapuyŋu language variety. ABC Indigenous News Radio broadcasts a news program in Yolngu Matha and also in Warlpiri on weekdays. The Aboriginal...
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Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian Language. p. 3. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative...
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the language was produced by linguist Peter K. Austin, and there is a project under way to teach it in schools. The Diyari had a highly developed sign language...
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Kaytetye people (section Language)
to the west the Warlpiri, and to the north the Warumungu. Kaytetye country is dissected by the Stuart Highway. The Kaytetye language belongs to the Arandic...
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Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia:...
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such as the Warlpiri, have auxiliary sign languages which are primarily used by older women. Men typically know a few signs, but do not sign extensively...
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"Umpila — Language and Cognition — Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics". www.mpi.nl. Retrieved 4 August 2015. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal...
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List of Latin-script digraphs (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
Bantu languages like Lingala, Tshiluba, and Kikongo, for /ŋk/ or /ᵑk/. In the transcription of Australian Aboriginal languages such as Warlpiri, Arrernte...
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