Amami Oshima Sign Language
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Amami Island Sign | |
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Miyakobu Sign | |
Amami Oshima Sign | |
Native to | Japan |
Region | Amami Ōshima |
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ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | amam1247 [1] |
Amami Island Sign, or Amami Oshima Sign (AOSL), is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In Koniya region [ja] 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.
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- 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, eds. (2017). "Amami O Shima Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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