Bura Sign Language

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Bura Sign Language
Native to Nigeria
Region 40 km SE of Biu
Ethnicity Bura people
Native speakers
 (no estimate available)
Village sign language, West African gestural area
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)

Bura Sign Language is a village sign language used by the Bura people around the village of Kukurpu in Nigeria, an area with a high degree of congenital deafness. None of the signers have been to school, and there appears to be no influence of Western sign; it is unrelated to the national Nigerian Sign Language.

Bura SL has the lax hand shapes and large sign space characteristic of West African sign. Many of the words are similar or identical to those of Adamorobe Sign Language and Nanabin Sign Language of Ghana; these involve conventionalized (co-verbal) gestures in the hearing population of West Africa, such as 'sweat' for "work" and 'sleep' for "next day".

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    ^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French.
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