The Illustrated Handbook of Yolŋu Sign Language

Discover the incredible project documenting over 500 hand signs used by the Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land, which will be introduced by linguist and anthropologist Dr Bentley James on Thursday, 5 August 2021 at 06:30 PM AEST.

Directed by the Yolŋu signers and speakers of this rare, endangered language, the Illustrated Handbook Of Yolŋu Sign Language of North East Arnhem Land was created over 25 years in the many homelands and communities of the region.

In this talk held by the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, Dr Bentley James examines the roots of the project to enhance the intergenerational transmission of ancestral knowledge, and the ethno-linguistics of alternate sign language (Adone, James, Kendon).

Dr James will describe the who, what, and where with pictures and something of the five hundred signs of Yolŋu sign language collected from the east to the west of Yolŋu Country.

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