Amami Oshima Sign Language
| Amami Island Sign | |
|---|---|
| Amami Oshima Sign | |
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | Amami Oshima |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
amam1247[1] |
Amami Island Sign, or Amami Oshima Sign (Amami O Shima Sign, AOSL), is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Oshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In Koniya region of the island, there exist a high incidence of congenital deafness, which is dominant and tends to run in a few families; moreover, the difficulty of the terrain has kept these families largely separated, so that there is extreme lexical geographical diversity across the island, and AOSL is therefore perhaps not a single language.
References
- Osugi, Yutaka; Ted Supalla; and Rebecca Webb (1999). "The use of word elicitation to identify distinctive gestural systems on Amami Island." Sign Language & Linguistics, 2:1:87–112
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Amami O Shima Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
See also
| National language | |
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| Indigenous languages | |
| Non-Indigenous languages | |
| Creole languages | |
| Sign languages | |
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