Saudi Sign Language
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| Saudi Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| السعودية مترجمي لغة الاشارة | |
| Native to | Saudi Arabia |
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Native speakers
|
(no estimate available)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sdl |
| Glottolog | saud1238[2] |
Saudi Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia.
Classification[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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.[1]
