Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language | |
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Signed in | Hawaii |
Region | limited to the islands of Hawaii |
Native signers | virtually extinct; a few elderly signers are bilingual with the dominant ASL (date missing) |
Language family |
Unknown
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | hps |
Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language is a sign language used in Hawaii. Now largely supplanted by American Sign Language, it is almost extinct and is used only by a few elderly people, who are bilingual in ASL. The language is named for the Hawaii Pidgin spoken language and is not itself a pidgin.