• Yolŋu (Yolngu) or Murngin Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia....
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    Yolŋu Matha (IPA: [ˈjuːŋuːl ˈmaːtaː]), meaning the 'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the...
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  • Speech-taboo languages Caucasian Sign Language Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles...
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  • Duala) 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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    Yolngu (redirect from Yolŋu)
    his 1957 work. Since the 1960s, the term Yolŋu has been widely used by linguists, anthropologists and the Yolŋu people themselves. The term applies to both...
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  • Yolŋu in his maiden speech. In 2018, Cynthia Lui became the first politician to address an Australian parliament in a Torres Strait Islander language...
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  • Living Residences), Toronto, Ontario, Canada; a skyscraper Yolŋu Sign Language Yugoslav Sign Language (ISO 639 code: ysl) YSL, a brand of Japan Tobacco Search...
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  • Dangu) and Djangu (Djaŋu) constitute an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yolŋu group, spoken by the Dhaŋu and Djaŋu people in Australia's Northern...
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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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    Australian Aboriginal languages, four belong to the Western Desert grouping of the Central and Great Victoria Desert. Yolŋu languages from north-east Arnhem...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • The Ritharnggu language (Ritharrŋu, Ritharngu, Ritarungo) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yolŋu language group, spoken in Australia's Northern...
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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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  • (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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  • southernmost attested Australian Aboriginal sign language. The following words are from the Ngarrindjeri language: kondoli – 'whale' korni/korne – 'man' kringkari...
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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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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with Y. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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  • Djaŋu (section Language)
    the demonstrative pronoun "this". The Djaŋu dialect belongs to the Yolŋu language family. The precise extent of Djaŋu country cannot be measured, given...
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  • Northern Territory of Australia. The Yan-nhaŋu language belongs to the Yolŋu Matha language group of the Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land in northern Australia...
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  • Australian Aboriginal kinship (category Articles containing Gamilaraay-language text)
    wakinŋu. Yolŋu also have a kinship system with eight subsections (four Dhuwa and four Yirritja which is what creates moiety). The Gamilaraay language group...
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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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    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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    Warumungu Wubuy Yan-nhaŋu Yolŋu Matha Indigenous Australian literature Language revival "Home". Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages. Northern Institute,...
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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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    Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole), Djambarrpuyngu (a Yolŋu language) and Pitjantjatjara (a Western Desert language) were among the most widely spoken. NILS and...
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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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