Ghanaian Sign Language
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| Ghanaian Sign Language | |
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| Native to | Ghana |
| Native speakers | (unknown)[1] |
| Language family |
French Sign
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gse |
Ghanaian Sign Language is a variety of American Sign Language[2] used as the national sign language of deaf people in Ghana. It was introduced in 1957 by Andrew Foster, a deaf African-American missionary, as there had been no education or organizations for the deaf previously. Foster went on to establish the first school for the deaf in Nigeria a few years later, and Nigerian Sign Language shows influence from GSL. GSL is unrelated to indigenous Ghanaian sign languages such as Adamorobe Sign Language and Nanabin Sign Language.
There are nine schools for the deaf in Ghana.
References [edit]
- ^ Ghanaian Sign Language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ The University of Central Lancashire, for example, speaks of the threat to Adamorobe Sign Language posed by "the Ghanaian variety of American Sign Language".[1]
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