Sri Lankan Sign Language
| Sri Lankan sign | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Sri Lanka |
Native speakers | unknown number of 13,000 deaf people (1986)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sqs |
| Glottolog | sril1237 |
| ELP | Sri Lankan Sign Language |
Sri Lankan Sign Language is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.
Classification
Wittmann (1991)[2] posits that the Sri Lankan languages, as a group, are a language isolate ('prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language. It is not known if they are related to each other, nor how many there are.
References
- ^ Sri Lankan sign at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]
