• Many Australian Aboriginal cultures have or traditionally had a manually coded language, a signed counterpart of their oral language. This appears to...
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    Australia portal Aboriginal Australians Australian Aboriginal sign languages List of Aboriginal Australian group names List of Australian Aboriginal languages...
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  • there are significant sign languages developed for the hearing as well, such as the speech-taboo languages used in aboriginal Australia. Scholars are doing...
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  • The languages of Australia are the major historic and current languages used in Australia and its offshore islands. Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages...
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  • of languages, including sign languages. Cultural traditions and beliefs as well as historical tellings of actual events are passed down in Aboriginal oral...
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  • Aboriginal kinship Australian Aboriginal sign languages Avoidance language Taboo against naming the dead "Aspects of Traditional Aboriginal Australia" (PDF). AIJA...
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  • desert region of Australia. It is one of the most elaborate, and certainly the most studied, of all Australian Aboriginal sign languages. While many neighbouring...
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  • Sign Language Auslan Australian Aboriginal sign languages Old French Sign Language French Sign Language Adam, Robert (2017). "Australian Irish Sign Language:...
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    Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
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  • Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia. As with other Australian Aboriginal...
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  • Arrernte Sign Language, or Aranda Sign Language, also known as Iltyeme-iltyeme (handsigns), is a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used...
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  • Aboriginal Australian kinship comprises the systems of Aboriginal customary law governing social interaction relating to kinship in traditional Aboriginal...
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  • Warlpiri Sign Language, it is (or perhaps was) one of the most elaborate of all Australian Aboriginal sign languages. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal...
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    Both languages have signed forms, though they are not reported to be particularly well-developed compared to other Australian Aboriginal sign languages. The...
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  • speech taboos similar to those operating in Aboriginal Australia (see Australian Aboriginal sign languages), and is now defunct. Under the strict patriarchal...
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    also known as Western Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of northern Western Australia. It encompasses a number of dialects, which are...
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    Aboriginal languages as official languages in Canada. "Aboriginal mother tongue, Aboriginal language spoken most often at home and Other Aboriginal language(s)...
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    numerous Australian Aboriginal sign languages. AISL and the more dominant Australian sign language, Auslan, were used as the primary languages of Deaf...
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    Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people...
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  • Australian Aboriginal elders are highly respected people within Australia and their respective Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. An elder...
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    (dichotomy) established between languages and dialects. Natural languages are spoken, signed, or both; however, any language can be encoded into secondary...
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  • Akitiri Sign Language, also known as Eltye eltyarrenke (hand signs), is (or was) a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Kaytetye...
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    The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Palawa kani: Palawa or Pakana) are the Aboriginal people of the Australian island of Tasmania, located south of the mainland...
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  • Miriwoong Sign Language is a developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Miriwoong, an Aboriginal community in the north of Australia. It is...
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    Taungurung (Taungurong, Daungwurrung Dhagung-wurrung, Thagungwurrung) are Aboriginal languages of the Kulin nation of Central Victoria. Woiwurrung was spoken by...
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  • Manually coded languages (MCLs) are a family of gestural communication methods which include gestural spelling as well as constructed languages which directly...
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  • Mobile Language Team. Retrieved 5 January 2021. S11 Tanganekald at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres...
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  • were over 250 Aboriginal languages. It is now estimated that all but 13 remaining Indigenous languages are considered endangered. Aboriginal people today...
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    The Western Desert language, or Wati, is a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama–Nyungan family. The name Wati tends to be used...
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  • speech is found in many Australian Aboriginal languages and Austronesian languages as well as some North American languages such as Anishinaabe-mowin...
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