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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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  • (Warramunga) Sign Language ** Western Desert Sign Language (Kardutjara, Yurira Watjalku) * Worora Kinship Sign Language Yir Yoront Sign Language * Yolŋu (Murngin)...
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  • sign languages. While many neighbouring language groups such as Arrernte and the Western Desert Language have auxiliary sign languages, Warlpiri Sign...
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  • Pama-Nyungan. Language 88. 817-845. Johns Hopkins University Press. Miller, Wick R. (1978). A report on the sign language of the Western Desert (Australia)...
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  • widely-spoken Indigenous languages. Other distinctively Australian languages include the Australian sign language Auslan, Indigenous sign languages, and Norf'k-Pitcairn...
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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 Manjiljarra...
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  • Ngaadadjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect of the Western Desert language. It is spoken in the Western Desert cultural bloc which covers about 600 000 square...
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  • (/ˈɒzlæn/) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. The term Auslan is a portmanteau of "Australian Sign Language", coined by...
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    Levantine. Levantine Arabic Sign Language is Lebanon's native sign language; Lebanon's deaf population is estimated at 12,000. Western Armenian is used between...
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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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    refugees during the war between the Polisario Front and Morocco. The south-western desert region near Tindouf offered a potential safe region. Algeria, in its...
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    key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with...
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  • Western Neo-Aramaic (ܐܰܪܳܡܰܝ, arōmay), more commonly referred to as Siryon (ܣܪܝܘܢ, siryōn, "Syriac"), is a modern Western Aramaic language. Today, it is...
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    spoken in the Eastern desert and along the southern Red Sea coast, including the disputed Halaib Triangle. The only sign language known to be used in Egypt...
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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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  • 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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    Namib (redirect from Namib desert)
    driest regions, with only western South America's Atacama Desert to challenge it for age and aridity benchmarks. The desert geology consists of sand seas...
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  • Anti-Lebanon Mountains in western Syria. They have retained use of the once-dominant lingua franca despite subsequent language shifts experienced throughout...
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    ja]), or the Western Torres Strait language (also several other names, see below), is the language indigenous to the central and western Torres Strait...
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    Levant (redirect from Western Mesopotamia)
    and eastern desert (also discussed at Syrian Desert, also known as the Badia region). In other words, Mesopotamia and the North Arabian Desert. To the south:...
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    Keffiyeh (redirect from Desert scarf)
    practical and protective covering for the head and face, especially in the arid desert climate in which they have traditionally lived, before adaptation as a symbol...
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    significant language, the other being Equatorial Guinea. The SADR was proclaimed by the Polisario Front on 27 February 1976, in Bir Lehlou, Western Sahara...
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    April 2018. Meir, Irit; Sandler, Wendy (2013). A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language. "Basic Law: Israel – the Nation State of the Jewish...
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    West Africa (redirect from Western Africa)
    Atlantic Ocean forms the western as well as the southern borders of the West African region. The northern border is the Sahara Desert, with the Ranishanu Bend...
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  • loanwords. The tones are specified using the soft sign, hard sign, or none. A number of books in Dungan language, including textbooks, Dungan-Russian and Russian-Dungan...
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    monasticism, particularly in Western Europe via its Latin translations. Many stories are also told about Anthony in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Anthony probably...
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    Western American English (also known as Western U.S. English) is a variety of American English that largely unites the entire Western United States as...
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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 Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...
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    Olneya (redirect from Desert Ironwood)
    desert ironwood, or palo fierro in Spanish. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Olneya. This tree is part of the western Sonoran Desert in...
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