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

Australian Sign Language

Australian Aborigines Sign Language

Related sign languages:

Australasian Sign Language（an attempt to merge Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language into one common sign language）

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.

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Carty, Breda M. 2006. Comments on "W(h)ither the Deaf community?" In: Sign Language Studies. 6 : 220-225.

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Hyde, Merv, Stein Erik Ohna . And Oddvar Hjulstadt. 2006. A comparison of the definitions, policies and practices associated with the educational inclusion of deaf students in Australia and Norway. In: American annals of the Deaf. 150(5) : 415-426.

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Napier, Jemina, Karen Bontempo and Marcel Leneham. 2006. Sign language interpreting in Australia: An Overview. [Retrieved July 3, 2008]

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Carty, Brenda M. 2005. Managing their own affairs: The Australian Deaf community during the 1920s and 1930s. Queensland : Griffith University. [Unpublished PhD thesis. Retrieved July 3, 2008]

Hyde, Merv B. and Desmond J.Power. 2004. The personal and professional characteristics and patterns of work of itinerant teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing in Australia. In: Volta Review. 104 : 51-68.

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Power, Mary R. and Desmond J. Power. 2004. Everyone here speaks TXT: Deaf people using SMS in Australia and the rest of the world. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 9 : 333-343.

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McKee, David and Graeme Kennedy. 2000. Lexical Comparisons of Signs from American, Australian, British and New Zealand Sign Languages. In : Emmorey, Karen and Harlan Lane eds. The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. 43-73.

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Rumsey, Catherine. 1999. Australia.　In: H. William Brelje　ed.　Global perspectives on the education of the deaf in selected countries. Hillsboro, OR. : Butte Publications. 1-30.

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Madell, Samantha. 1998. Warlpiri Sign Language and Auslan - A Comparison. Master of Arts (Applied Anthropology and Development). Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

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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.=1978. Sign language among the Walbiri of Central Australia. 409-423. [Including information of Walbiri Sign Language ]

・ Love, James Robert Beattie. 1941=1978. Worora kinship gestures. 403-405. [Including information of Worora Kinship Sign Language ]

・ Berndt, Ronald Murray. 1940=1978. 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, Charles Pearcy. 1938=1978. Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. 393-396. [Including information of Ngada Sign Language ]

・ Warner, W. Lloyd. 1937=1978. Murngin Sign Language. 389-392.

・ Strehlow, Carl. 1907=1978. The sign language of the Aranda. 349-370. [Including information of Aranda Sign Language ]

・ Roth, Walter E. 1897=1978. The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. 273-301. [Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera, Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa.]

Meggit, Mervyn. 1954. Sign language among the Walbiri of Central Australia. In: Oceania. 1954. 25(1): 2-16. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 409-423.) [Including information of Walbiri Sign Language ]

Mountford, Charles Pearcy. 1949. Gesture language of the Walpari tribe, central Australia. In : Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 1949, 73: 100-101.

Love, James Robert Beattie. 1941. Worora kinship gestures. In : Transactions Of The Royal Society Of South Australia 65(1) 108-109. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 403-405.) [Including information of Worora Kinship Sign Language ]

Berndt, Ronald Murray. 1940. Notes on the sign-language of the Jaralde tribe of the Lower River Murray, South Australia. In : Transactions Of The Royal Society Of South Australia 64(2) 267-272. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 397-402. [Including information of Jaralde Sign Language ]

Mountford, Charles Pearcy. 1938. Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. In: Oceania 9: 152-155. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 393-396.) [Including information of Ngada Sign Language ]

Warner, W. Lloyd. 1937. Murngin Sign Language. In: Warner, W. Lloyd ed. A Black Civilization. New York: Harper and Row. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 389-392.)

Strehlow, Carl. 1907. The sign language of the Aranda. In: Strehlow, Carl. Ed. Die Aranda-und-Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien. Frankfurt: Baer; translated by C. Chewings. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 349-370.) [Including information of Aranda Sign Language ]

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 ]

Roth, Walter E. 1897. The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. In: Roth, W.E. eds. Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. London: Queensland Agent-Generals Information Office. 71-90. (Reprinted in Umiker-Seboek and Sebeok eds. 1978. 273-301.) [Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera, Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa.]

Films and videos

Carty, Brenda M., Neale, J. and Desmond Power. 1997. Deaf studies program: p-7(Video unit 3: Deaf people in the past in Australia). Brisbane : Language Australia centre for Deafness and communication studies, Griffith University.

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

Researchers

History of sign language research

Events

Links

Australian Communication Exchange

The Auslan Shop

Auslan Signbank

Australian Sign Language Interpreters' Association

Deaf sports Australia

Delivering quality educational outcomes for Deaf and hearing impaired students: The Transition to Auslan

National Auslan Interpreter Booking and Payment Service

Report on Supply and Demand for Auslan Interpreters

Deaf Community - Australia

Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Australia

Fingeralphabete (Australien)

Notes