Guinea-Bissau Sign Language
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| Guinea-Bissau Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guinea-Bissau |
incipient Deaf-community sign language | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | guin1260[1] |
Guinea-Bissau Sign Language is an incipient sign language evolving from the single school for the deaf in Guinea-Bissau, which was founded in Bissau in 2003. In 2005 a linguist and Portuguese Sign Language teacher found GBSL to still be basic, but with some consistency among students in the school and village use when the students went home.
References[edit]
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guinea-Bissau Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Sign language development in Guinea Bissau, NDCS, 2006.
