Summary of linguistic thesis Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL)

Adamorobe is a village in Ghana with a high % of deafness and a unique, locally evolved SL, AdaSL. This language is currently endangered, as the deaf children of the village acquire ASL in their boarding school. I wrote my descriptive PhD thesis at this language. You can download it at http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html
The video here is featuring myself, preparing myself to give a summary of my thesis in Sign Language of the Netherlands to the general public during my defence ("lekenpraatje"). You can find more info on AdaSL on http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=&c=596

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Adamorobe
• sign
• language
• ghana
• deaf
• sourd
• signe
• africa
• linguistics
• adasl
• endangered
• village

[MissingSirius]

@myrddinistheshit Signed languages are no more "invented" than spoken languages are.

[myrddinistheshit]

who invented this sign language?

[bonjourmesamis40]

salut moi im hohdeaf et im d'UAS je VEUX apprendre comment le français de signe signe langauge je sais qu'ASL signent langauge d'uas.

[rachelb823]

Sounds very interesting... too bad I can't understand your sign language! (I am American). I will look at the websites. :-)