Saudi Sign Language
{{Short description|Deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Saudi Sign Language
|altname=لغة الإشارة السعودية
|states=Saudi Arabia
|speakers=100,000
|date=2008
|ref=e25
|familycolor = sign language
|family=language isolate?
Arab Sign Language family?
|iso3=sdl
|glotto=saud1238
|glottorefname=Saudi Arabian Sign Language
}}
Saudi Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia. This sign language is different from the Unified Arabic Sign Language that is used by 18 Arab countries.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sdl|title=Saudi Arabian Sign Language|website=Ethnologue|access-date=14 December 2018}} There are 100,000 deaf people in Saudi Arabia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/Saudi_TV_sign_language_keeps_deaf_audience_in_news_loop-ZAWYA20170509033457/|title = Saudi TV sign language keeps deaf audience in news loop}}
Classification
Wittmann (1991)Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[http://www.nou-la.org/ling/1991a-class.pdf] posits that SSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language.
References
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Further reading
- Meir, Irit & Sandler, Wendy. (2007) A Language in Space: The Story of Israel Sign Language. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Category:Sign language isolates