Australian Aborigines Sign Language
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Revision as of 18:33, 14 December 2009
Language name | Australian Aborigines Sign Language |
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Region | Australia |
Language name
Australian Aborigines Sign Language
Region
Population of signers
Language family
Dialects
Aranda Sign Language (or Arunta Sign Language or Arrente Sign Language)
Dieri Sign Language
Djingili Sign Language
Jaralde Sign Language
Kaititj/Akitiri Sign Language
Manjiljarra Sign Language
Mudbura Sign Language
Murngin Sign Language
Ngada Sign Language
Torres Straits Islander Sign Language
Walpari Sign Language (or Walpiri Sign Language or Walbiri Sign Language)
Warumungu Sign Language (or Warramunga Sign Language)
Western Desert Sign Language (Yurira Watjalku)
Worora Kinship Sign Language
Linguistic characteristics
History
Related sign languages
Related spoken languages
Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Aranda Sign Language
Strehlow, Carl. 1978. The sign language of the Aranda. In:Umiker-Seboek, Donna J. and Thomas A. Sebeok eds. Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia v.2. New York. Plenum Press. 349-370
Murngin Sign Language
Warner, W. Lloyd. 1978. Murngin Sign Language. In: Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. v.2. New York: Plenum Press. 389-392.
Walpiri Sign Language
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
Roth, Walter E. 1978. The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. In: Umiker-Seboek, Donna J. and Thomas A. Sebeok eds. Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia v.2. New York. Plenum Press. 273-301.
Jaralde Sign Language
Berndt, R.M. 1940. Notes on the sign-language of the Jaralde tribe of the Lower River Murray, South Australia. In Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia.v.2. New York: Plenum Press. 397-402.
Manjiljarra Sign Language
Quek, Joan. Summer 1991. Occasions for sign use in an Australian Aborigine community. In: Sign Language Studies 71. 143-160.
Ngada Sign Language
Mountford, C.P. 1978. Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia. In: Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. v.2. New York: Plenum Press, 393-396.
Torres Straits Islander Sign Language
Haddon, Alfred C. 1907. The gesture language of the Eastern Islanders. In: Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Cambridge, England: The University Press, v.3.
Walbiri Sign Language
Meggit, Mervyn. 1978. Sign language among the Walbiri of Central Australia. In: Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. v.2. New York: Plenum Press. 409-423.
Western Desert Sign Language
Miller, Wick R. 1978. A report on the sign language of the Western Desert (Australia). In: Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. v.2. New York: Plenum Press. 435-440.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Related pages
Links
Notes
Continent | Australasian Sign Language | Australian Aborigines Sign Language | Australian Sign Language |
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Polynesia | Australasian Sign Language | New Zealand Sign Language | Samoan Sign Language |
Micronesia | (no data) |
Melanesia | Enga Sign Language | Fiji Sign Language | Rennellese Sign Language |
Areas and others | (no data) |