Sri Lankan Sign Language

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Sri Lankan Sign Language
Native toSri Lanka
Native speakers
unknown number of 13,000 deaf people (1986)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sqs
Glottologsril1237
ELPSri Lankan Sign Language

Sri Lankan Sign Language is a

deaf people in Sri Lanka
and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)

stimulus diffusion
from an existing sign language. It is not known if they are related to each other, nor how many there are.

References

  1. ^ Sri Lankan Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]

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