Saudi Sign Language
| Saudi Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| السعودية مترجمي لغة الاشارة | |
| Native to | Saudi Arabia |
Native speakers | (no estimate available)[1] |
|
language isolate? Arab Sign Language family? | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
sdl |
| Glottolog |
saud1238[2] |
Saudi Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia.
Classification
Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that SSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language.
References
- ↑ Saudi Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Saudi Arabian Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.