Yemeni Sign Language is the (or a)

deaf sign language Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sig ...

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

. It belongs to the

Arab sign-language family The Arab sign-language family is a family of sign languages spread across the Arab Middle East. Its extent is not yet known, because only some of the sign languages in the region have been compared. A language planning project for a single Arabi ...

(Hendriks 2008). It is not clear how close are the sign languages of the two former Yemeni states.

References

*Hendriks, Bernadet, 2008. ''Jordanian Sign Language: aspects of grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective'' (dissertatio

External links

Yemeni Sign Language database on kaggle
{{sign language navigation Arab sign languages Languages of Yemen