Amami Oshima Sign Language

Amami Island Sign
Amami Oshima Sign
Native to Japan
Region Amami Oshima
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog amam1247[1]

Amami Island Sign, or Amami Oshima Sign (Amami O Shima Sign, AOSL), is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Oshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In Koniya region of the island, there exist a high incidence of congenital deafness, which is dominant and tends to run in a few families; moreover, the difficulty of the terrain has kept these families largely separated, so that there is extreme lexical geographical diversity across the island, and AOSL is therefore perhaps not a single language.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Amami O Shima Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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