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Koniya Sign
Amami Ōshima Sign
Native toJapan
RegionAmami Ōshima

Native speakers

4 (2020)[1]

Language family

village sign

Language codes
ISO 639-3jks
Glottologamam1247

Koniya Sign (Japanese: 古仁屋手話, romanizedKoniya Shuwa), or Amami Ōshima Sign (AOSL; 奄美大島手話, Amamiōshima Shuwa) is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island in the Amami IslandsofJapan. In the region of Koniya [ja] on 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.

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Bibliography

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  1. ^ Koniya SignatEthnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon

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