Australia
From AASL
| Name of the country/area | Australia |
|---|---|
| Formal name of the country/area | Australia |
| Country/area information | The World Factbook(CIA) |
| Wikipedia(English) |
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 Aborigines Sign Language
Related sign languages:
Population of Deaf/deaf people
The population of the signers of Australian Sign Language: 14,000
Legal status of sign languages
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
Deaf Australia (WFD member, cited from WFD website)
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), Oceania (general), Hausa Sign Language, Ban Khor Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Australasian Sign Language ]
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.
Watanabe, Yoshihiko. 1998. Attracting world of hearing's sign talk : Slight impressions on translating "WARLPIRI HAND TALK". In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 30(1998.12) :38-46.
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.=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 ]
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 ] [1]
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 ] [2]
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
Sign Media Inc. ed. 1990. Signs around the world. Australia. Burtonsville, Maryland: SMI (30 min.)
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Notes
| Oceania (general) | Oceania (general) |
|---|---|
| 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 |
