Berbey Sign Language

Berbey Sign Language is a family sign language of the village of Berbey in the Hombori region of Mali. The local oral language is Humburi Senni. The language is currently spoken by two brothers (one of whom is deaf) and their families, including four deaf children. In the brothers' father's generation, all signers were deaf.[1]

Berbey Sign Language
Native toMali
RegionMount Hombori
Native speakers
5 deaf in two families, plus hearing members (2019)[1]
family sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologberb1261[2]

See also

References

  1. Nargess Asghari (2019) Iconicity in the Semantic Domain of Animals in the Emerging Family Sign Language of Berbey (Mali)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Berbey Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.



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