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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/8d512f9e-20ea-427d-8ebf-8a7b3cc2534d

Title: Metadata for the AISL signers involved in the collection

Description: This documents lists for each AISL signer involved in the collection their code, name, age at time of recording, birthday, gender and school attended. This material is only available upon request because it contains personal and sensitive personal information.

Date created: 2019-08-06

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Australia

Address: Melbourne, Sydney

Project

ID: SG0320

Name: 0376-SG0320

Description: Australian Irish Sign Language (AISL) is a minority sign language within a minority sign language community, brought to Australia from, Ireland in 1875 by a group of Dominican nuns (including a Deaf nun). Three schools used this as a language of instruction, all of which discontinued using AISL in the early 1950s. Most signers are in their early seventies onwards and they number 100 although there may be younger Deaf and hearing native signers who had Deaf parents. The last dictionary was published in 1942.