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25.01.2022 Story in the Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au//we-will-save-this-one-desperate-ef
23.01.2022 Christine Anu loves Yolngu Sign Language...listen here... https://www.abc.net.au//sydney/p/nationalevenings/11001034
23.01.2022 The Illustrated Handbook of Yolu Sign Language of North East Arnhem Land Project. The intergenerational transmission of the endangered Indigenous Australian Sign Language (YSL) Yolu Sign Language is the focus of our work. This research, directed by the Yolu signers and speakers of this rare language, has been conducted over the last 25 years on the homelands and in the communities of North East Arnhem Land. The importance of passing on this language to a new generation of ...Continue reading
22.01.2022 https://www.sbs.com.au//yellow-wiggle-donates-20-000-to-pr
20.01.2022 https://drbentleyjames.wordpress.com//the-illustrated-han/
19.01.2022 20,000 THANKYOUS We don't know how to thankyou enough -WOW- golden girl Emma has sung, danced and wiggled her way into sign history....WOW !!!
19.01.2022 IY2019 The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) to raise awareness of the crucial role languages play in people’s daily lives. In Australia, of the estimated original 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, only around 120 are still spoken. Of these approximately 90 per cent are endangered.... IY2019 is an opportunity to continue raising awareness and taking further actions to improve preservation and promotion of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. #SaveYolnguSignLanguage #IYIL2019 #indigenouslanguages #yolngu #signlanguages
18.01.2022 Signing is about communicating. Thank you so much.. We are so grateful for the support. Can you please urge your library to purchase a copy and really help us to keep up the good work. There is more information on the project at https://www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au/
18.01.2022 YSL Book Launch Announcment
15.01.2022 https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/laurie-baymarrwanga
15.01.2022 https://drbentleyjames.wordpress.com/
12.01.2022 Read about the Illustrated Handbook of Yolu Sign Language of North East Arnhem Land https://drbentleyjames.wordpress.com/ or purchase a copy here https://www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au/
10.01.2022 Yolngu women - grandmother Doris Yethun Dahmbing Burarrwanga, daughter Abby Dhamarrandji (23) and grand daughters Grace Bururrwanga (12) and Rekisha Gaykamaangu (3) walk along the beach at NGayawili, on Elcho Island
09.01.2022 Here i am sharing the story of YSL on the news.
09.01.2022 Dancing, signing signing golden girl’s gift and generosity brighten the rainbow of our vision and opportunity to give. In light, of such a generous spirit we can expand our vision of distribution to Deaf schools, carer organisations, underprivileged and disadvantaged Indigenous schools Australia wide, and to public Museums, and libraries more broadly than expected. Given the enchanted gift from our own Emma Mary Poppins- the golden wiggle- we are now considering electronic forms of distribution. Thankyou for your generosity. Your insight helps make children’s dreams come true. Thankyou for your vision and generosity, the more you help us the more we can give in the IYIL.
07.01.2022 https://aiatsis.gov.au//wisdomatic-women-leader-spirit-bay
06.01.2022 https://drbentleyjames.wordpress.com//yolnu-sign-language/
05.01.2022 EMMA MARY POPPINS https://www.abc.net.au//yellow-wiggle-donates-to-/11154490
02.01.2022 YSL is linked to the SPIIRIT OF COUNTRY.
02.01.2022 https://www.arts.gov.au//iy2019-inspiration-save-yolngu-si
01.01.2022 What is Yolu Sign Language? YSL is not a signed version of a Yolu language, but a totally unique and rare Australian Indigenous Sign Language, an alternative Yolu language for the hearing and the primary language of Deaf Yolu. Arising from a rich ancestral inheritance of song, dance, ritual and kinship YSL reflects an intimate relationship with the natural world. YSL is a full and comprehensive human language that can express the all-embracing experience of humanity. So... what is YSL exactly? To drill right down into it, a more precise definition of YSL, once known as Murngin Sign Language, includes the fundamental idea that it is an endemic sign language of the Yolu community of North East Arnhem Land. As previously emphasised - YSL is not a signed version of any spoken Yolu language but an alternate language of sign for hearing Yolu people, and a primary language for the Deaf (Adone 2016) YSL, having evolved to communicate and respond to the unique and complex ritual and religious life of the Yolu people, reflects their intimate relationship with an ancestral geography and kin based universal view. (Morphy 2008). Distinctive characteristics entailed in an absolute Frame of Reference (FoR) for spatial expression and powerfully developed schema of signed kinship relationships (Levinson 1996a). YSL is used during periods of mourning when speech is culturally forbidden. It is also used in the presence of sacred objects and sacred sites, during ceremony and in the company of poison kin. YSL is also used for practical reasons, such as communication over distance, secrecy or for silent hunting practice. In the past YSL was learned from birth along with spoken language but its intergenerational transmission has been severely diminished by changes imposed (both deliberately and coincidentally) by the Settler State. So what can we do ? At this time of #IYIL we hope the growing popularity of spoken Yolu languages, the #GARMA festival and greater understanding of Indigenous rights in Australia, will improve the prospects for this barely known and increasingly endangered language. So we have been working away behind the scenes. We have completed over ten thousand photographs, three thousand of which bring together the richest of some five hundred signs of YSL collected from across North East Arnhem Land. We, that is all those who get behind this project, we will create a beautiful book of colour signs to be handed out for free to homelands, schools, ranger programs, individuals who have contributed and other public organisations who support Indigenous Languages. This hand out will mirror that of the Yan-nhau Atlas and Illustrated Dictionary of the Crocodile Islands 2014. This is what Big Boss wanted. This is what we are doing. Join us ! This is a real opportunity to work for Indigenous Language in the IYIL. #SaveYSL #indigenouslanguages #Yolngu #Signlanguages See more
