Amami Oshima Sign Language
Amami Island Sign, or Amami Oshima Sign (AOSL), is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In Koniya region of the island, there exist a high incidence of congenital deafness, which is dominant and tends to run in a few families; moreover, the difficulty of the terrain has kept these families largely separated, so that there is extreme lexical geographical diversity across the island, and AOSL is therefore perhaps not a single language.
Amami Island Sign | |
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Amami Oshima Sign | |
Native to | Japan |
Region | Amami Ōshima |
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ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | amam1247 [1] |
See also
References
- Osugi, Yutaka; Ted Supalla; and Rebecca Webb (1999). "The use of word elicitation to identify distinctive gestural systems on Amami Island." Sign Language & Linguistics, 2:1:87–112
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Amami O Shima Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. Conversely, ASL and BSL both originated in English-speaking countries but are not related to each other; ASL however is related to French Sign Language.
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