Auslan

Proper noun

Meaning

English Wikipedia has an article on:AuslanWikipedia
Auslan

The sign language of the Australian deaf community.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

Australian Sign Language

Examples

Auslan, BSL and NZSL have 82% of signs identical (using concepts from a Swadesh list ). Source: Internet

BSL, Auslan and NZSL: Three sign languages or one? Source: Internet

The language contact post secondary education between Australian ISL users and 'Australian BSL' users accounts for some of the dialectal differences we see between modern BSL and Auslan. Source: Internet

Sociolinguistic variation in fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language (Auslan): A pilot study. Source: Internet

Tertiary education in the US for some deaf Australian adults also accounts for some ASL borrowings found in modern Auslan. Source: Internet

Not having any deaf family, Ms O'Brien fell in love with the language at high school after watching Auslan interpreters interact with deaf students. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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