Australia

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Indigenous signs for "Australia"

Illustrations in the literature

"Australia" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 12.)

Spoken languages

English

Sign languages

Australasian Sign Language

Australian Sign Language

Australian Aborigines Sign Language

Related sign languages:

British Sign Language

American Sign Language

Irish Sign Language

Population of Deaf/deaf people

The population of the signers of Australian Sign Language: 14,000

Ethnologue, 16th Edition

Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Deaf Australia (WFD member, cited from WFD website)

http://deafau.org.au

Australian Association of the Deaf (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

Johnston, Trevor, ed. 1998. Signs of Australia : a new dictionary of Auslan (the sign language of the Australian deaf community), 2nd ed. North Rocks, NSW, Australia: North Rocks Press, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

Johnston, Trevor. 1989. AUSLAN Dictionary. A dictionary of the sign language of the Australian deaf community. Victoria : Aust. Print Group.

Jeanes, Raymond C., Brian E. Reynolds and Bernadette C. Coleman. 1989. Dictionary of Australasian signs for communication with the deaf, 3nd ed. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Victorian School for Deaf Children.

Jeanes, Raymond C., Brian E. Reynolds and Bernadette C. Coleman. 1989. Dictionary of Australasian signs for communication with the deaf, 2nd ed. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Victorian School for Deaf Children.

Wright, Cheryl D. 1980. Walpiri hand talk: an illustrated dictionary of hand signs used by the Walpiri people of central Australia. Darwin, NT: Northern Territory Department of Education.

Bibliography

Monaghan, Leila. 2003. A world's eye view: Deaf cultures in global perspective. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze　Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf　communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 1-24. [Including information of Africa (general),Asia (general), and Oceania (general) ]

Sutton-Spence, Rachel. 2003. British manual Alphabets in the education of Deaf people since the 17th century. In:Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf:International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 25-48.

Quek, Joan. Summer 1991. Occasions for sign use in an Australian Aborigine community. In: Sign Language Studies. 71. 143-160. [Including information of Manjiljarra Sign Language ]

Umiker-Seboek, Donna J. and Thomas A. Sebeok eds. 1978. Aboriginal Sign Languages of the Americas and Australia. v.2. New York. Plenum Press.

Contents:

• Miller, Wick R. 1978. A report on the sign language of the Western Desert (Australia).435-440.[Including information of Western Desert Sign Language ]

• Meggit, Mervyn. 1954. Sign language among the Walbiri of Central Australia. 409-423.[Including information of Walbiri Sign Language ] (Originally published in Oceania.1954. 25(1): 2-16.)

• Love, J.R.B. 1941. Worora kinship gestures. 403-405.[Including information of Worora Kinship Sign Language ]

• Berndt, R.M. 1940. Notes on the sign-language of the Jaralde tribe of the Lower River Murray, South Australia. 397-402.[Including information of Jaralde Sign Language ]

• Mountford, C.P. 1938. Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. 393-396.[Including information of Ngada Sign Language ] (Originally published in Oceania. 1938. 9: 152-155.

• Warner, W. Lloyd. 1937. Murngin Sign Language. 389-392. (Extracted from A Black Civilization. New York: Harper and Row, 1937.)

• Strehlow, Carl. 1915. The sign language of the Aranda. 349-370.[Including information of Aranda Sign Language ] (Extracted from Die Aranda-und-Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien. Frankfurt: Baer; translated by C. Chewings.)

• Roth, Walter E. 1897. The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. 273-301. (Reprinted from Roth, W.E. eds. 1897. Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. London: Queensland Agent-Generals Information Office. 71-90.) [Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera, Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa.]

Haddon, Alfred C. 1907. The gesture language of the Eastern Islanders. In: Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. v.3. Cambridge, England: The University Press. [Including information of Torres Straits Islander Sign Language ]

Films and videos

Sign Media Inc. ed. 1990. Signs around the world. Australia. Burtonsville, Maryland: SMI (30 min.)

Researchers

History of sign language research

Events

Links

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