Arab sign-language family
Family of sign languages across the Arab Middle East / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Arab sign-language family is a family of sign languages spread across the Arab Middle East. Its extent is not yet known, because only some of the sign languages in the region have been compared.[1]
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Arab sign language | |
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Geographic distribution | Mideast, North Africa |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's sign language families |
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Glottolog | arab1398 |
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A language planning project for a single Arabic Sign Language is being conducted by the Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs (CAMSA), with much of the vocabulary voted on by regional Deaf associations.[1][2] However, so far only a dictionary has been compiled; grammar has not been addressed, so the result cannot be considered a language.[3]