• Umpila, also known as Ompeila, Ompela, Oom-billa, or Koko-umpilo, is an Aboriginal Australian language, or dialect cluster, of the Cape York Peninsula...
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  • Torres Strait Islander Sign Language Umpila Sign Language * Warlmanpa Sign Language ** Warlpiri Sign Language ** Warluwara Sign Language * (extinct) Warumungu...
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  • slow, soft voice. An extreme case of avoidance behavior is found in the Umpila, in which a man and his mother-in-law may not speak at all in each other's...
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  • cultural heritage. The best developed auxiliary sign languages in the area include Umpila Sign Language of the Ombila and Pakadji people, and these are...
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  • southernmost attested Australian Aboriginal sign language. The following words are from the Ngarrindjeri language: kondoli – 'whale' korni/korne – 'man' kringkari...
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    Desert peoples, sign language has been reported specifically for Kardutjara and Yurira Watjalku, Ngaatjatjarra (Ngada), and Manjiljarra. Signed Kardutjara...
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  • Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 30 January 2020. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia:...
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  • "Gesture language of the Ngada tribe of the Warburton Ranges, Western Australia", Oceania 9: 152–155. Reprinted in Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas...
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  • is one of the Yolŋu languages spoken by Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory, Australia. Although all Yolŋu languages are mutually intelligible...
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  • Yir-Yoront Lexicon: Sketch and Dictionary of an Australian Language. p. 3. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative...
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