Kailge Sign Language | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Kailge, Western Highlands Province |
Language family | village sign |
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.
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