Sri_Lankan_Sign_Language

Sri Lankan Sign Language

Sri Lankan Sign Language

Deaf sign language of Sri Lanka

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.

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Classification

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

  1. [1]
    Sri Lankan Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    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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