Akitiri Sign Language, also known as Eltye eltyarrenke (''hand signs''),
is (or was) a highly developed
Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the
Kaytetye people
The Kaytetye, also written Kaititya, and pronounced ''kay-ditch'', are an Aboriginal Australian people who live around Barrow Creek and Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Their neighbours to the east are the Alyawarre, to the south the Anm ...
of northern Australia.
[ Kendon, A. (1988) ''Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60]
References
Bibliography
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Hale, Ken (c1960s), Original handwritten lexical list, 3pp.; ''notes on ‘Kaititj: akitiri sign language’,'' 3pp. in IATSIS library, MS 4114 Miscellaneous Australian notes of Kenneth L. Hale, Series 2 Barkly Tablelands language material, item 1-2 Wampaya
ambaya (C19)
Australian Aboriginal Sign Language family
Arandic languages
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