Saudi Sign Language

Saudi Sign Language
لغة الإشارة السعودية
Native to Saudi Arabia
Native speakers
 720,000 (2010)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sdl
Glottolog saud1238[2]

Saudi Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that SSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/Saudi_TV_sign_language_keeps_deaf_audience_in_news_loop-ZAWYA20170509033457/
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Saudi Arabian Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.

Further reading

  • Meir, Irit & Sandler, Wendy. (2007) A Language in Space: The Story of Israel Sign Language. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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