Saudi Sign Language

Saudi Sign Language
Signed in Saudi Arabia
Native signers unknown  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sdl

Saudi Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[1] posits that SSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language.

References

  1. ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]