Douentza Sign Language, or Dogon Sign Language is a
community sign language spoken in
Douentza and neighboring communities in the
Dogon country in Mali. It is unknown how similar it may be to the nearby
village sign language A village sign language, or village sign, also known as a shared sign language, is a local indigenous sign language used by both deaf and hearing in an area with a high incidence of congenital deafness. Meir ''et al.'' define a village sign langua ...
,
Tebul Sign Language
Tebul Sign Language is a village sign language of the village of Uluban in the Dogon region of Mali, among speakers of Tebul Dogon.
See also
*Bamako Sign Language
Bamako Sign Language, also known as Malian Sign Language, or LaSiMa (''Langue ...
, but it may be unrelated to another sign language of the Dogon region,
Berbey Sign Language. As of 2013, there is no school for the deaf in the area, but one is planned; the introduction of
American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is express ...
as the language of instruction may affect Douentza Sign. A video corpus has been collected by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics to document the pre-contact form of the language.
References
*Nyst, Magassouba and Sylla (2013) Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali In: De Vos & Zeshan (2013).
Dogon Sign Language Corpus Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Sign language isolates
Sign languages of Mali
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