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Trevor Johnston FAHA is an Australian expert on Auslan.. Johnston received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1989 for his work on Auslan. [1] Johnston was responsible for coining the term Auslan, [2] and created the first Auslan dictionary, which was also one of the first sign language dictionaries that sequenced signs throughout according to principles that were language internal ...
Auslan (/ ˈ ɒ z l æ n /; an abbreviation of Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community.Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL); the three have descended from the same parent language, and together comprise the BANZSL language family.
Contact Sign – a pidgin or contact language between a spoken language and a sign language, e.g. Pidgin Sign English (PSE). Curwin Hand Signs – a technique which allows musical notes to be communicated through hand signs. International Sign (previously known as Gestuno) – an auxiliary language used by deaf people in international settings.
“God invented sign language. You can’t fool God saying, ‘Well, you don’t know sign language.’ No way,” the priest continued, shaking his head and wagging his finger, eliciting more ...
Similarly, countries which use a single spoken language throughout may have two or more sign languages, or an area that contains more than one spoken language might use only one sign language. South Africa, which has 11 official spoken languages and a similar number of other widely used spoken languages, is a good example of this. It has only ...
Australian Sign Language, also known as Auslan, is the primary signed language for deaf Australians. [citation needed] It is hard to tell how many signing deaf people are in Australia as much information is unavailable, and what information is available is largely out of date. [1]
* "Developed" (Kendon 1988) ** "Highly developed" Miriwoong Sign Language is also a developed or perhaps highly developed language.. With the decline of Aboriginal oral and signed languages, an increase in communication between communities and migration of people to Cairns, an Indigenous sign language has developed in far northern Queensland, based on mainland and Torres Strait Islander sign ...
Papua New Guinea Sign Language (c. 1990), which is a creole formed with Auslan, used by 30,000 people [6] New Zealand SL (1800s), used by approximately 20,000 people [7] Northern Ireland SL (19th century - with American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language influences) South African SL (somewhere between 1846 & 1881), used by perhaps 235,000 people