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Warumungu Sign Language
Warramunga Sign Language
RegionNorth Central Desert, Australia
Native speakers
None
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
  • Warumungu
    • Warumungu Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

Warumungu Sign Language is a sign language used by the Warumungu, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia. Along with Warlpiri Sign Language, it is (or perhaps was) one of the most elaborate of all Australian Aboriginal sign languages.[1]

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

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