Burkina Sign Language

Burkina Sign Language
	Mossi Sign Language
Native to	Burkina Faso
Region	Ouagadougou
Language family	Deaf-community sign language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	burk1234[1]

Burkina Sign Language (in French: Langue des signes mossi) is the indigenous sign language of the Deaf community in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou. Deaf education in Burkina is in American Sign Language.^[2] There are 55,500 deaf people in Burkina^[3]

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Burkina Faso Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Brentari, Diane (2010). Sign Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 406. ISBN 1139487396.
↑ International Mission Board.(2017). People groups. http://www.peoplegroups.org/explore/groupdetails.aspx?peid=47719

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Burkina Faso Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[2] Brentari, Diane (2010). Sign Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 406. ISBN 1139487396.

[3] International Mission Board.(2017). People groups. http://www.peoplegroups.org/explore/groupdetails.aspx?peid=47719

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