Akitiri Sign Language

Akitiri Sign Language
Kaytetye Sign Language
Eltye eltyarrenke
RegionCentral Northern Territory
Native speakers
None
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone

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]

  1. ^ "Iltyem iltyem". Iltyem iltyem. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. ^ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60