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Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language

Video file

The first Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language is an online resource hosted by Victoria University of Wellington. Viewers can click on a sign and see a video of a person using it in an utterance. This is the video for 'house'. The man is signing the phrase: ‘The house is old and falling apart. It needs to be fixed up and painted’. 

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Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language

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Janet Holmes, Linguistics – Vocabulary studies and applied linguistics, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/43851/dictionary-of-new-zealand-sign-language (accessed 15 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Janet Holmes, i tāngia i te 16 December 2013.