A vigilante-style group is running "safety patrols" in Melbourne's CBD to counteract what it claims is the inability of police to protect the public from rising street crime and gangs such as Apex.

The self-proclaimed "patriot" group Soldiers of Odin Australia – an offshoot of a far-right Finnish group – is patrolling Federation Square, Birrarung Marr and Bourke Street Mall and outside city train stations at night. Its members wear distinctive black uniform jackets emblazoned with a Norse war helmet and Australian flag.

It is believed to be the first time a vigilante-style organisation has operated in the city centre, although "community patrol" groups have reportedly emerged in the outer suburbs amid a spate of publicity about home invasions, bashings and carjackings linked to rising youth crime.

"We're fed up anda hand/mouth system (HMS) to render spoken language phonemes visually intelligible.
 Fingerspelling – alphabetic signs to represent the written form of a spoken language.
 English
 Manually Coded English
 Signing Exact English (SEE2)
Makaton
Malay
 Bahasa Malaysia Kod Tangan (BMKT)
Speech-taboo languages
 Caucasian Sign Language
 Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles as a language of the deaf)

Genetic classification of sign languages

Languages are assigned families (implying a genetic relationships between these languages) as British, Swedish (perhaps a branch of BSL), French (with branches ASL (American), Austro-Hungarian, Danish, Italian), German, Japanese, and language isolates.

See also
 Contact sign
 Intercultural competence
 Legal recognition of sign languages
 List of sign languages by number of native signers
 Manual alphabet
 Sign language
 World Federation of the Deaf

References

External links
Ethnologue