the trinity - ahbat (father) - urnat (mother) - lj (child)

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• ethiopian
• sign
• language
• amharic
• relation
• mother
• father
• child
• deaf
• school
• mathematics
• dance
• warrior
• culture
• trinity

[earlyheron]

Are you aware that the signs for father and mother are actually signs from American Sign Language? I hope the Deaf community (from which the signs come I hope) will give space to the original Ethiopian signs in their language.  It is their linguistic heritage. By the way, I think the original signs will be better suited to your project anyway... try and see! Good luck, Victoria

[unifiedknowledge]

Thank you for your comment. Yes we are aware, as you may know this (ASL) was the bases sign system adopted by Ethiopia nationally. When you say "original sign" what do you mean? We'd welcome reference to indigenous sign systems. Do you have further information?

[MFJVIDEO]

wow, brilliant. how interesting , thanks

[victorianyst]

In most African countries foreign SLs were imported together with Deaf education. As a result, preexisting local SLs were marginalized. Only in a few countries (Mali, Guinne-Bissau), local SLs have had a chance to be used in formal education. In most other countries, they still exist, but (unfortunately) are typically considered as primitive, shameful and incapable of being used in education. This parallels the way former colonial languages are evaluated as cf to local African languages.