Indigenous sign languages protected in online dictionary (fwd link)

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September 12, 2013 <http://phys.org/archive/12-09-2013/>
Indigenous sign languages protected in online dictionary
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A University of Melbourne researcher has helped develop the first online
dictionary of sign languages used by Indigenous communities across central
Australia.

The dictionary <http://iltyemiltyem.com/sign/> 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.

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.
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