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Sri Lankan sign languages

Index Sri Lankan sign languages

Sri Lankan Sign Language is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka. [1]

6 relations: Deaf-community sign language, Hearing loss, Henri Wittmann, Sign language, Sri Lanka, Trans-cultural diffusion.

Deaf-community sign language

A deaf-community sign language is a sign language that emerges when deaf people who do not have a common language come together and form a community.

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Hearing loss

Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.

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Henri Wittmann

Henri Wittmann (born 1937) is a Canadian linguist from Quebec.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Trans-cultural diffusion

In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.

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ISO 639:sqs, Sri Lankan Sign Language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_sign_languages

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