Albarradas Sign Language
{{Short description|Deaf sign language of Mexico}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Albarradas Sign Language
|nativename = Didxa ná’
|states=Mexico
|region=Oaxaca
|speakers=some members of a community of 1,000
|date=
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|familycolor = sign language
|family=village sign language
|iso3=lsc
|glotto=alba1273
|glottorefname=Albarradas Sign Language
|map = Sign Languages of Turtle Island.svg
|mapcaption = Various sign languages of Turtle Island (North America), excluding Francosign languages. Didxa ná’ is labelled in black as #4.
}}
Albarradas Sign Language, also known as Didxa ná’,{{cite book |editor1-last=Bickford |editor1-first=Albert |editor2-last=Stark |editor2-first=Sharon |editor3-last=Starker |editor3-first=Scott |title=Vocabulario Zapoteco del Istmo |date=2013 |publisher=Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A. C.}} is an indigenous village sign language of Mexico.{{Cite web |title=Signed languages of Mexico {{!}} SIL Mexico |url=https://mexico.sil.org/language_culture/signed-languages-mexico |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=mexico.sil.org}} It arose approximately 150 years ago in the Zapotec villages of Santa Catarina Albarradas, San Antonio Albarradas and possibly one other nearby town, due to a high incidence of congenital deafness.
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Category:Village sign languages
Category:Sign languages of Mexico
Category:Language isolates of North America
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