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Auslan (/ ˈ ɒ z l æ n /; an abbreviation of Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community.Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL); the three have descended from the same parent language, and together comprise the BANZSL language family.
Australian Sign Language, also known as Auslan, is the primary signed language for deaf Australians. [citation needed] It is hard to tell how many signing deaf people are in Australia as much information is unavailable, and what information is available is largely out of date. [1]
Trevor Johnston FAHA is an Australian expert on Auslan.. Johnston received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1989 for his work on Auslan. [1] Johnston was responsible for coining the term Auslan, [2] and created the first Auslan dictionary, which was also one of the first sign language dictionaries that sequenced signs throughout according to principles that were language internal ...
Papua New Guinea Sign Language (c. 1990), which is a creole formed with Auslan, used by 30,000 people [6] New Zealand SL (1800s), used by approximately 20,000 people [7] Northern Ireland SL (19th century - with American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language influences) South African SL (somewhere between 1846 & 1881), used by perhaps 235,000 people
The Australian sign language Auslan was used at home by 16,242 people at the time of the 2021 census. [33] Over 2,000 people used other sign languages at home in 2021. There is a small community of people who use Australian Irish Sign Language .
At the time of the 2006 census, 52,000 Indigenous Australians, representing 12% of the Indigenous population, reported that they spoke an Indigenous language at home. [92] Australia has a sign language known as Auslan, which is the main language of about 10,112 deaf people who reported that they use Auslan language at home in the 2016 census. [93]
Australia has multiple sign languages, the most spoken known as Auslan, which in 2004 was the main language of about 6,500 deaf people, [48] and Australian Irish Sign Language with about 100 speakers.
Unlike ASL, which is a real language and has its own unique grammar system, SEE-II is intended to be an exact visual model of spoken English and allows children with hearing loss to access grammatically correct English, just as all hearing children receive in educational settings.