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Miriwoong Sign Language

Miriwoong Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Australia. Glottolog rates it moribund.

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Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar, unrelated to the spoken languages around them.

Miriwoong Sign Language is a developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Miriwoong, an Aboriginal community in the north of Australia. Only older adults use the language as a first language. Signers do not find Yolngu Sign Language to be understandable.

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