• Warumungu Sign Language is a sign language used by the Warumungu, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia. Along with Warlpiri...
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    Warumungu have a highly developed sign language. The Warumungu language is a Pama–Nyungan language similar to the Warlpiri language spoken by the Warlpiri people...
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    the Warlpiri, Warumungu, Dieri, Kaytetye, Arrernte, and Warlmanpa, and are based on their respective spoken languages. A sign language arose among tribes...
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  • Language have auxiliary sign languages, Warlpiri Sign Language, along with Warumungu Sign Language, appears to be the most well developed and widely used...
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  • Islander Sign Language Umpila Sign Language * Warlmanpa Sign Language ** Warlpiri Sign Language ** Warluwara Sign Language * (extinct) Warumungu (Warramunga)...
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  • Warlmanpa Sign Language is a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Warlmanpa people of northern Australia The first recorded...
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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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  • southernmost attested Australian Aboriginal sign language. The following words are from the Ngarrindjeri language: kondoli – 'whale' korni/korne – 'man' kringkari...
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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 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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  • 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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    Desert peoples, sign language has been reported specifically for Kardutjara and Yurira Watjalku, Ngaatjatjarra (Ngada), and Manjiljarra. Signed Kardutjara...
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    Northern Territory: 19 languages (~ 28,100): Luritja (~ 1,000) Upper Arrernte (~ 4,500) Warlpiri (~ 2,300) Kaytetye (~ 100) Warumungu (~ 300) Gurindji (~...
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    can be carried out in the sign language; however, it does not attain the sophistication of a fully developed sign language. It's had some influence on...
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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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    their language to be known as Western Aranda. This dialect has similarities with Alyawarre and Kaytetye. The Arrernte also have a highly developed sign language...
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    Pitjantjatjara: [ˈpɪɟanɟaɟaɾa] or [ˈpɪɟanɟaɾa]) is a dialect of the Western Desert language traditionally spoken by the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia...
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    is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem...
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    Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup. It is the traditional language of the Wiradjuri people of Australia. A revival is underway, with the language being...
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  • is one of the Yolŋu languages spoken by Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory, Australia. Although all Yolŋu languages are mutually intelligible...
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  • "Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia", Oceania 9: 152–155. Reprinted in Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas...
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    Kriol. Many also speak other languages, such as Arrernte, Jaru, Western Desert Language, Warumungu. Indigenous sign language is also an important component...
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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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    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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  • Aboriginal languages: a general introduction. London: Angus & Robertson Publishers. ISBN 0-207-14044-8. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal...
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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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  • (Dhaŋu, Dangu) and Djangu (Djaŋu) constitute an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yolŋu group, spoken by the Dhaŋu and Djaŋu people in Australia's...
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  • Djinba is an Australian Aboriginal Yolŋu language, spoken by the Djinba in eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Dialects of the two moieties are (a)...
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    with only 109 speakers of the language in the 2021 census. The Kaytetye have (or had) a well-developed sign language known as Akitiri or Eltye eltyarrenke...
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  • Djinang is an Australian Aboriginal language, one of the family of Yolŋu languages which are spoken in the north-east Arnhem Land region of the Northern...
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