Akitiri Sign Language Explained

Akitiri Sign Language
Nativename:	Eltye eltyarrenke
Also Known As:	Kaytetye Sign Language
Region:	Central Northern Territory
Speakers:	none
Familycolor:	Australian
Fam1:	Pama–Nyungan
Fam2:	Arandic
Fam3:	Kaytetye
Isoexception:	dialect
Glotto:	none

Akitiri Sign Language, also known as Eltye eltyarrenke (hand signs),^[1] is (or was) a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Kaytetye people of northern Australia.^[2]

References

1. Web site: Iltyem iltyem. Iltyem iltyem. 5 June 2017.
2. [Adam Kendon|Kendon, A.]

Bibliography

• Hale, Ken (c1960s), Original handwritten lexical list, 3pp.; notes on ‘Kaititj: akitiri sign language’, 3pp. in IATSIS library, MS 4114 Miscellaneous Australian notes of Kenneth L. Hale, Series 2 Barkly Tablelands language material, item 1-2 Wampaya [Wambaya (C19)].