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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 family

Deaf-community sign languages

Language codes
ISO 639-3sqs
Glottologsril1237
ELPSri Lankan Sign Language

Sri Lankan Sign Language (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංඥා භාෂාව, romanized: Śrī Laṁkā Saṁgnā Bhāṣāva) is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.

Classification[edit]

Wittmann (1991)[2] 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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sri Lankan Sign LanguageatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  • ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement" (PDF). Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée (in French). 10 (1): 215–88. S2CID 162499258.

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