Kailge Sign Language - Kailge Sign Language
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| Kailge Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Kailge, Western Highlands Province |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | kail1256[1] |
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.[2] 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.[3]
KSL has lexical similarities with another village sign language in the region, Sinasina Sign Language.[4]
References
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kailge Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ 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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