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	Warlpiri Sign Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Warlpiri Sign Language is a sign language used by the Warlpiri, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia.
		As a result, it is typical for Warlpiri women to have a better command of the sign language than men, and among older women at Yuendumu, Warlpiri Sign Language is in constant use, whether they are under a speech ban or not.
		Kendon A. Parallels and divergences between Warlpiri sign language and spoken Warlpiri: analyses of signed and spoken discourses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warlpiri_Sign_Language (467 words)

	Sign Language Encyclopedia Articles @ Remarked.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to express fluidly a speaker's thoughts.
		Sign languages commonly develop in deaf communities, which can include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hard of hearing themselves.
		Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world and are at the core of local Deaf cultures.
	www.remarked.org /encyclopedia/Sign_language (1657 words)

	sign language Information Center - american sign language
		A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - basic sign language simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement british sign language alphabet sign language alphabet of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's thoughts.
		Sign languages develop in deaf communities, which can include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hearing-impaired themselves.
		Sign languages are not pantomime, and they are not a visual rendition of an oral language.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_R_-_T/sign_language.html (2031 words)

	Help.com - language family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
		According to a SIL report, sign languages of Russia, Moldova and Ukraine share a high degree of lexical similarity and may be dialects of one language, or distinct related languages.
		Sign languages of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq (and possibly Saudi Arabia) may be part of a sprachbund, or may be one dialect of a larger Eastern Arabic Sign Language.
	help.com /wiki/Language_family (1495 words)

	Talk:Warlpiri Sign Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I think that Plains Indian Sign Language is an example of a hearing community producing a fairly elaborate sign language which is not based on a spoken language, so it is entirely possible WSL is indeed a seperate language.
		While it's probably true that there have been signing systems around for a very long time, WSL is different (and as far as I know has no parallel in any other Australian language though I'll have to check Kendon's book on this) as it is a complete language, i.e.
		The special situation with Warlpiri is that widows are required to be silent for a lengthy mourning period, which is the presumed reason for the sign language having become a true language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Warlpiri_Sign_Language (768 words)

	Human Language by Vivian Cook
		Language is also arbitrary in that it relies on combinations of a small set of sounds or shapes that do not have meaning in themselves.
		While some of the gestures of human sign languages resemble ‘natural’ gestures like those of the wild chimp, most are as stylised and arbitrary as any of the sounds of speech, just as the origins of the letter "A" as the shape of an ox’s horns are now less than obvious.
		The British Sign Language gesture of pointing at someone with the right hand clenched and first finger extended may well be readily interpreted as ‘you’, but it is far from obvious that the first finger of the right hand stroking down the right cheek from ear to chin means ‘woman’.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /vivian.c/Writings/InsideLanguage/IlHumanLang.htm (8253 words)

	Australian Aboriginal languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Too little is known of their languages to be able to classify them, although they seem to have had some phonological similarities with languages of the mainland.
		In some languages the persons in between the accusative and ergative inflections (such as second person, or third-person human) may be tripartite: that is, marked overtly as either ergative or accusative in transitive clauses, but not marked as either in intransitive clauses.
		A language which displays the full range of stops and laterals is Kalkutungu, which has labial p, m; "dental" th, nh, lh; "alveolar" t, n, l; "retroflex" rt, rn, rl; "palatal" ty, ny, ly; and velar k, ng.
	www.nyacknyus.com /profile/Australian_languages (1614 words)

	Adam Kendon - Publications
		Sign and Culture: A Reader for Students of American Sign Language.
		Kendon, A. The sign language of the women of Yuendumu: A preliminary report on the structure of Warlpiri sign language.
		Kendon, A. Language and Gesture: Unity or Duality.
	www.ciolek.com /SPEC/kendon.html (2315 words)

	Warlpiri language references
		The configurationality parameter and Warlpiri, pp.319-353 in Configurationality: the Typology of Asymmetries, ed.
		Warlpiri sign language at Yuendumu : demonstrations for a Warlpiri sign language dictionary / by Ruby Nangala Robertson and Winnie Nangala.
		A reappraisal of the adjoined subordinate clause in Warlpiri.
	www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/wlp-lx-ref.html (8309 words)

	An Agenda for Gesture Studies
		Siegel, J. "The Enlightenment and the evolution of a language of signs in France and England." In Journal for the History of Ideas, 30, 96-115.
		Jepson, J. "Urban and rural sign language in India." In Language in Society 20:37-57.
		[Descriptive analyses of a sign language used in the upper Lagiap valley in the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea as this could be derived from the signing of one deaf young woman and a hearing Enga who knew the sign language.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/gesture.html (8845 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:ASW
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Several different sign languages are also used by deaf persons.
		Other non-deaf sign languages are used by some groups, such as Aranda, Warlpiri, Warumungu, during periods of mourning or hunting.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ASW (117 words)

	Deaf cultures: Australia
		He was saying "light" in Auslan - the sign language his parents had been using constantly around him since he had been diagnosed profoundly deaf a month earlier.
		The school has introduced Auslan, an Australian sign language for the deaf community, into the curriculum and employed an Auslan user to teach the students.
		Sign language has become the next best way of communicating at St Monicas Primary School in Wodonga.
	www.theinterpretersfriend.com /indj/dcoew/australia.html (3589 words)

	Home > Berkeley, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These include: French Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language, American Sign Language, Irish Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language, Flemish Sign Language, Belgian-French Sign Language, Spanish Sign Language, Mexican Sign Language and others.
		Others possibly influenced by ASL include Ugandan Sign Language, Kenyan Sign Language, Phillipine Sign Language and Malaysian Sign Language.
		Known isolates include Nicaraguan Sign Language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, and Providence Island Sign Language.
	www.berkeleycaus.com /profile/Language_family (1569 words)

	Detailed record of the Warlpiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		GANDEVIA B. The Prevalence of Signs of Chronic Respiratory Disease in Pintubi and Walbiri Aborigines at Papunya, Central Australia, and Warburton, Western Australia.
		MYERS F.R. A claim to areas of traditional land by the Warlpiri, Kukatja, and Ngarti: A Central land Council submission on behalf of the traditional owners of the land claimed.
		TESTART A. Ombres et lumières sur les Warlpiri (Australie Centrale).
	www.ausanthrop.net /resources/ausanthrop_db/detail.php?id_search=543 (1313 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		To search for language resources, select a language, material type, and level from the menus below.
		Each Language Profile includes information about the historical, cultural, and social roots of the language, a map showing where the language is spoken, basic facts about the grammar, writing systems, and history of the language, and a wealth of other sociolinguistic information.
		Each page also includes contains links to the LMP citations for that language and a list of websites of interest to teachers and learners of the language.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /profile.aspx (132 words)

	Haviland Notes
		In Cape York Penninsula, GY's neighboring languages all have cognate terms for the cardinal directions, although descriptions of usage are lacking.
		Sander Adelaar (p.c.) remarks that during World War II speakers of Chamic languages were confused by Western soldiers who pointed to a far off spot, asking for a place name, only to be given the name of the spot directly below the outstretched finger.
		Of course, the physically present JB may differ in significant ways from the JB who was "a young man then," for whom the immediately present indexed referent may be only a proxy.
	www.binghamton.edu /language-culture/symposia/3/part1/notes.html (1635 words)

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