Akitiri Sign Language

Akitiri Sign Language
Kaytetye Sign Language
Region Central Northern Territory
Native speakers
None
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None

Akitiri Sign Language is (or was) a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Kaytetye people of northern Australia.[1]

References

  1. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60

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