• 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/) (Warlpiri: Warlpiri Warlpiri pronunciation: [waɭpiɻi] > ['waɭbɪ̆ˌɻi]) language is spoken by close to 3,000 of...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • endangered language. Warlpiri Sign Language Yolŋu Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Yan-nhaŋu Sign Language at Ethnologue...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    highly developed sign language. The Warumungu language is a Pama–Nyungan language similar to the Warlpiri language spoken by the Warlpiri people. In the...
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  • of sign languages are not well established due to a lagging in linguistic research, and many are isolates (cf. Wittmann 1991). Constructed language – Consciously...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Grammatical number (category Articles containing Warlpiri-language text)
    (September 22, 1987). A Government-Binding Based Parser for Warlpiri, a Free-Word Order Language (PDF) (Report). Technical Report 993. Cambridge, MA: MIT...
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  • Belgian region of Wallonia WarlpiriWarlpiri Spoken in: the Australian Northern Territory Welsh – Cymraeg Official language in: the British country of...
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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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    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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  • Australian Aboriginal kinship (category Articles containing Gamilaraay-language text)
    total of sixteen skin names, for example the Pintupi (listed below) and Warlpiri. While membership in skin groups is ideally based on blood relations, Australian...
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    9 May 2023. "Government Publishes Bill to recognise British Sign Language as a language of Gibraltar - 274/2022". Government of Gibraltar. 19 April 2022...
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  • another significant wave of early immigrants, and they contributed Cornish language words, such as wheal (from Cornish hwel, "mine"), which is preserved in...
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    Wallace line. In a 2001 study, blood samples were collected from some Warlpiri people in the Northern Territory to study their genetic makeup (which is...
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  • Publishers Australia. Retrieved 30 May 2021. Bruce Moore (2008). "Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English" (PDF). Oup.com.au. Retrieved 19 November...
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  • Botocudo (Krenák), Chiquitano, the Campa languages, Arabela, and Achuar. Some languages of Australia, such as Warlpiri, do not have words for quantities above...
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