Burkina Sign Language

{{Short description|Deaf sign language of Ouagadougou}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Burkina Sign Language

|altname=Mossi Sign Language

|states=Burkina Faso

|region=Ouagadougou

|speakers=?

|date=

|familycolor=sign

|family=Deaf-community sign language

|iso3=none

|glotto=burk1234

|glottorefname=Burkina Faso Sign Language

}}

Burkina Sign Language ({{Langx|fr|Langue des signes burkinabé}}), also known as Mossi Sign Language ({{Langx|fr|Langue des signes mossi|label=none}}) is the indigenous sign language of the Deaf community in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou. Deaf education in Burkina is in American Sign Language (ASL){{cite encyclopedia

|last=Nyst

|first=Victoria

|date=2010

|chapter=Sign languages in West Africa

|editor-first=Diane

|editor-last=Brentari

|title=Sign Languages

|pages=405-432

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|isbn=978-0-521-88370-2}}

and Burkina Faso Sign Language is considered to be an ASL based creole language.{{cite conference

| url = http://www.fabianbross.de/bfsl.pdf

| title = The clause structure of Burkina Faso Sign Language

| last1 = Bross

| first1 = Fabian

| date = 2021

| publisher =

| book-title = Paper presented at the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics

| location = Leiden University

| doi = 10.17605/OSF.IO/79VCN

}}