Tijuana Sign Language

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Tijuana Sign Language
Native to Mexico
Native speakers
(no estimate available)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)

Tijuana Sign Language is a deaf sign language of Mexico, but one unintelligible with, and apparently unrelated to, Mexican Sign Language.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[1] posits that TSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely of the French Sign Language family.

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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