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Dogon Sign Language

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Native to
  
Mali

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Region
  
Douentza

Glottolog
  
None

Native speakers
  
est. 700–1300 deaf in the area (2013)

Language family
  
Deaf-community sign language

Dogon Sign Language is a community sign language spoken in Douentza and neighboring communities in the Dogon country in Mali. It is unknown how similar it may be to the nearby village sign language, Tebul Sign Language. As of 2013, there is no school for the deaf in the area, but one is planned; the introduction of American Sign Language as the language of instruction may affect Dogon Sign. A video corpus has been collected by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics to document the pre-contact form of the language.

References

Dogon Sign Language Wikipedia