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</h1><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:30px">Indigenous sign languages protected in online dictionary</h1><div style>AUS</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A University of Melbourne researcher has helped develop the first online dictionary of sign languages used by Indigenous communities across central Australia.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
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The <a href="http://iltyemiltyem.com/sign/" style="color:rgb(49,61,87);outline:0px">dictionary</a> includes several hundred videos of hand-signs and other sign-actions used by Anmatyerr speakers from Ti Tree in the Northern Territory, and by the Ngaanyatjarra people in the Western Desert of Western Australia.</p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 17px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.4">Dr Jenny Green—from the University of Melbourne's Research Unit for Indigenous Language —said signing was a crucial but endangered style of communication in Indigenous communities.</p>
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