• Ugandan Sign Language (USL) is the deaf sign language of Uganda. Uganda has had schools for deaf children since 1959. In 1973, the Uganda National Association...
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    and 2 are almost extinct. There is also a Ugandan Sign Language. In all of the Bantu-speaking areas of Uganda, dialect continua are very common. For example...
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    include Ugandan Sign Language, Kenyan Sign Language, Philippine Sign Language and Malaysian Sign Language. According to an SIL report, the sign languages of...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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  • available in Uganda; it is unknown whether this means that Rwandan Sign Language is related to Ugandan Sign Language. Rwandan Sign Language at Ethnologue...
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  • Language, Kenyan Sign Language, Libyan Sign Language, Maroua Sign Language, the various Sudanese sign languages, Ugandan Sign Language, Zambian Sign Language...
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    consider their language to be distinct from ASL and from neighboring sign languages, such as Ugandan and Rwandan Sign. Costa Rican Sign Language, also known...
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  • The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...
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    International Sign (IS) is a pidgin sign language which is used in a variety of different contexts, particularly as an international auxiliary language at meetings...
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  • sign language. On 8 October 1995, Uganda adopted a new constitution promoting the development of a sign language for the deaf. Ugandan Sign Language was...
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