Australian Aborigines Sign Language

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Basic information of the sign language
Language name Australian Aborigines Sign Language
Region Australia


Contents

Language name

Australian Aborigines Sign Language

Region

Australia


Population of signers

Language family

Dialects

Aranda(Arunta 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(Walpiri or Walbiri) Sign Language

Warumungu(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

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

Green, Jenifer, G. Woods, and Bill Foley. 2011. Looking at language: Appropriate design for sign language resources in remote Australian Indeigenous communities. In : Thieberger, Nicholas, Linda Barwick, R. Billington and J. Vaughen eds. Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspective on digital research. Conference proceedings, University of Melbourne, 12-14th December 2011. Melbourne: Custom Book Centre, The University of Melbourne. 66-89.

O'Reilly, Suzannah. 2006. Indigenous Sign Language and Culture; the interpreting and access needs of Deaf people who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in Far North Queensland. Sponsored by ASLIA, the Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association.

Kendon, Adam. 1998. Sign languages of aboriginal Australia: Cultural, semiotic, and communication perspectives. New York : Cambridge University Press.

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

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.

Kendon, A. 1994. Sign Languages. Contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. David, Horton, ed. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Kwek, Joan and Adam Kendon. 1991. Occasions for sign use in an Australian aboriginal community. (with introduction note by Adam Kendon). In : Sign Language Studies 20: 71. 143-160.

Kendon Adam. 1988. Parallels and divergences between Walbiri Sign Language and spoken Warlpiri: analyses of signed and spoken discourses. In : Oceania. 58. 239-54.

Kendon, Adam. 1988. Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kendon, Adam. 1987. Simultaneous Speaking and Signing in Walbiri Sign Language Users. In : Multilingua. 1987, 6: 25-68.

Kendon, Adam. 1987. Sign languages : Australian Aboriginal. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York : McGraw-Hill. vol.3. 58-59.

Kendon, A. 1986.Iconicity in Walbiri Sign Language . In P. Bouissac, M. Herzfeld and R. Posner, eds., Iconicity: Essays on the Nature of Culture. Festschrift for Thomas A. Sebeok on his 65th Birthday, Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 437-446.

Kendon, Adam. 1985. Variation in Central Australian Aboriginal Sign language: A preliminary report. In : Language in Central Australia. 1(4): 1-11.

Kendon, Adam. 1984. Knowledge of sign language in an Australian Aboriginal community. In : Journal of Anthropological Research. 1984. (40), 556-576.

Kendon, Adam. 1980. The sign language of the women of Yuendumu: A preliminary report on the structure of Warlpiri sign language. In : Sign Language Studies. 1980 (27), 101-112.

Wright, C.D. 1980. Walpiri Hand Talk: An Illustrated Dictionary of Hand Signs used by the Walpiri People of Central Australia. Darwin: N.T. Department of Education.


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 ]

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.]


Researchers

History of sign language research

Related pages

Links

Iltyem-iltyem 'signalling with hands, using handsigns'


Notes

Countries and areas of Oceania
Continent Australasian Sign Language | Australian Aborigines Sign Language | Australian Sign Language
Polynesia Australasian Sign Language | New Zealand Sign Language | Samoan Sign Language
Micronesia (no data)
Melanesia Enga Sign Language | Fiji Sign Language | Rennellese Sign Language
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