Sri Lankan Sign Language
Sri Lankan Sign Language is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.
| Sri Lankan Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Sri Lanka |
Native speakers | unknown number of 13,000 deaf people (1986)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sqs |
| Glottolog | sril1237[2] |
Classification
Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that the Sri Lankan languages, as a group, are a language isolate ('prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language. It is not known if they are related to each other, nor how many there are.
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References
- Sri Lankan Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sri Lankan Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.
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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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