Kailge Sign Language
| Kailge Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Kailge, Western Highlands Province |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | kail1256 |
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. 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.
KSL has lexical similarities with another village sign language in the region, Sinasina Sign Language.
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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