Saudi Sign Language

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Saudi Sign Language
السعودية مترجمي لغة الاشارة
Native to Saudi Arabia
Native speakers
(no estimate available)
language isolate?
Arab Sign 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.
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