Berbey Sign Language

{{Short description|Family sign language of Mali}}

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|name=Berbey Sign Language

|states=Mali

|region=Mount Hombori

|speakers=5 deaf in two families, plus hearing members

|date=2019

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|familycolor = sign language

|family=family sign

|iso3=none

|glotto=berb1261

|glottorefname=Berbey Sign Language

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Berbey Sign Language is a family sign language of the village of Berbey in the Hombori region of Mali. The local oral language is Humburi Senni. The language is currently spoken by two brothers (one of whom is deaf) and their families, including four deaf children. In the brothers' father's generation, all signers were deaf.Nargess Asghari (2019) [https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/70449 Iconicity in the Semantic Domain of Animals in the Emerging Family Sign Language of Berbey (Mali)]

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Category:Village sign languages

Category:Language isolates of Africa

Category:Sign languages of Mali

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