Indigenous sign languages protected in online dictionary (fwd link)

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Indigenous sign languages protected in online dictionary
September 17, 2013 AUS

A University of Melbourne researcher has helped develop the first online
dictionary of sign languages used by Indigenous communities across central
Australia. The dictionary 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.

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http://scienceblog.com/66659/indigenous-sign-languages-protected-in-online-dictionary/#8Az6TQcJIhQ0MUfQ.99
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