Kailge Sign Language
Village sign language of Papua New Guinea
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Kailge , Western Highlands Province |
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Kailge Sign Language is a well-developed village sign language of Western Highlands Province , Papua New Guinea. It is spoken over a wide region of small hamlets around the town of Kailge , as well as in Kailge itself, in a Ku Waru –speaking region. It might be characterized as a network of homesign rather than as a single coherent language. [1] Its use of signing space is more similar to that of deaf-community sign languages than that of many village sign languages shared with the hearing community. [2]
KSL has lexical similarities with another village sign language in the region, Sinasina Sign Language . [3]
References
- ↑ Lauren Reed & Alan Rumsey (2019), 'Sign Languages in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands'
- ↑ Lauren Reed & Alan Rumsey, New Research on a Vernacular Sign Language in the New Guinea Highlands , 18 August 2017
- ↑ Lauren Reed & Alan Rumsey, Initial observations of mouth action distribution, type, and variation in Kailge Sign Language, an undocumented sign language of Papua New Guinea , ALS 2017: Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, 6 December 2017
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