Chatino Sign Language
| Chatino Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca |
| Ethnicity | Chatino |
Native speakers | 11 deaf in San Juan Quiahije (2015 survey)[1] also used by some hearing people |
family sign[1] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | chat1269 |
San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language is an emerging village sign language of the indigenous Chatino villages of San Juan Quiahije and Cieneguilla in Oaxaca, Mexico, used by both the deaf and some of the hearing population.[2] It is apparently unrelated to Mexican Sign Language. As of 2014, there is a National Science Foundation-funded study and also a National Institutes of Health-funded study of the development of this language.[3]
Non-signing hearing people in the village use various gestures for negation when speaking, and these are retained in Chatino Sign Language. The variability of these signs may be due to the small size of the deaf population in comparison to the number of hearing people who use them as co-speech gestures.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Lynn Hou and Kate Mesh, 2013, Negation in Chatino Sign Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 11), University College, London, July 2013
- ^ Erard, Michael (April 17, 2014). "The Discovery of a New Language Can Help Explain How We Communicate". Al Jazeera.
- ^ Deaf researcher studies emergence of new signed language in Mexico, The Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin, 2014 Feb 26.
External links
- ELAR archive of Investigating an undocumented sign language in a Chatino speech/sign community
