New Zealand
From AASL
Name of the country/area | New Zealand |
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Formal name of the country/area | New Zealand |
Country/area information | The World Factbook(CIA) |
Wikipedia(English) |
Indigenous signs for "New Zealand"
Illustrations in the literature
"New Zealand" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 17.)
Spoken languages
English
Maori
Sign languages
Related sign languages:
Australasian Sign Language (an attempt to merge Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language into one common sign language)
Population of Deaf/deaf people
Legal status of sign languages
New Zealand Sign Language became the third official language of New Zealand in April 2006.
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) (WFD member, cited from WFD website)
Deaf Association of New Zealand, Inc
(WFD member, data in 2002, cited from "Signs of country names" (Japanese edition, Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies ed. 2002. Tokyo: Japanese Federation of the Deaf))
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
Bibliography
Monaghan, Leila. 1996. Signing, oralism and the development of the New Zealand deaf community: An ethnography and history of language ideologies. Ph.D.dissertation. Los Angeles: University of California.
Monaghan, Leila. 1993. Contexts of luck: Issues involved with entering the New Zealand Deaf community. Anthropology UCLA. 20:43-62.
Aspden, Peter, John Devere, John Hunt, Leila Monaghan and Lynette Pivac. 1992. Celebrating 50 years deaf schools in Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand: Kelston Deaf Education Centre.
A., Allen B. 1980. They hear with the eye: A Centennial history of the summer school for Deaf children. Wellington, New Zealand: School publication branch, Department of Education.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Notes
Oceania (general) | Oceania (general) |
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Continent | Australia |
Polynesia | Kiribati | New Zealand | Samoa | Tonga | Tuvalu |
Micronesia | Federated States of Micronesia | Marshall Islands | Nauru | Palau |
Melanesia | Fiji | Papua New Guinea | Solomon Islands | Vanuatu |
Areas and others |