Native to Sri Lanka Glottolog sril1237 | ISO 639-3 sqs | |
Native speakers unknown number of 13,000 deaf people (1986) Language family Deaf-community sign languages | ||
Sri Lankan Sign Language is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.
Classification
Wittmann (1991) posits that the Sri Lankan languages, as a group, are a language isolate ('prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language. It is not known if they are related to each other, nor how many there are.
References
Sri Lankan sign languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA