South African Sign Language
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| South African Sign Language SASL |
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| Signed in: | South Africa | |
| Total signers: | 12,100 (1989) | |
| Language family: | Related to British Sign Language, Irish Sign Language and Auslan; some signs from American Sign Language | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | - | |
| ISO 639-3: | sfs
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| sign language — list of sign languages — legal recognition | ||
South African Sign Language (SASL) is accepted as the language of instruction in the education of Deaf learners.
SASL is an utterly distinct though incompletely emerged national standard language, but which also subsumes a cluster of semi-standardised dialects. South Africa one of a few countries to have legal recognition of sign language.
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- SASL
- Typology of the language
- [1] The Rosetta Project Ressources for SASL
- [2] Sutton Sign Writing graphical notation of SASL dictionary
- About SASL in SA
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