I think Auslan is the most obvious WM-AU language to
support - even before
"languages in our neighbourhood" like Indonesian etc.
However - how do we practically represent a sign language on a Wiki? I've
no idea how about you going about doing that... I know it has been discussed
in relation to Amercian Sign Language - but I still don't know how it's
visualised, edited...
-Liam
On 11/4/08, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/11/4 Peter Halasz <qubero(a)gmail.com>om>:
Tetum does sound like a good idea. For the sake
of brainstorming I've
listed
some other languages here...
Just as a point of reference, the most common languages spoken at home
in
Australia are English (80%), Chinese (2.1%),
Italian (1.9%), and Greek
(1.4%), Arabic, Serbian, French, Spanish, German, Macedonian, Croatian,
Polish, Turkish, Indigenous languages, Hindi, Maltese, Netherlandic,
Tagalog.
Focusing on refugees to Australia (offshore humanitarian visa grants
2007-08):
Top Ten Countries of Birth [1]: Burma/Myanmar (Burmese), Iraq,
Afghanistan,
Sudan, Liberia, Congo (DRC), Burundi, Iran,
Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka.
And there's also another Australian language, which only has loose ties
with
English, and happens to be only language other
than English I can hold a
conversation in. Auslan could make an interesting Wiktionary project.
It's
in the same family as British Sign Language, but
not related to American
sign language (ASL).
Nice idea! Do we have a userboxen for Auslan? I am Auslan-1 and have
certificate to prove it!! hehe
It has a language code, and 6,500 native speakers (atw) and a
population of 14,000 according to Ethnologue.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=asf
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