Sudanese sign languages

{{Short description|Sign languages of Sudan and South Sudan}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Sudanese sign

|states=Sudan, South Sudan

|speakers= ?

|familycolor = sign language

|family=several Deaf-community sign languages, perhaps also village sign languages

|iso3=none

|glotto=none

}}

Sudan and South Sudan have multiple regional sign languages, which are not mutually intelligible. A survey of just three states found 150 sign languages, though this number included instances of home sign. Government figures estimate there are at least about 48,900 deaf people in Sudan.{{cite video | people = Karen Andrae | date = 2009| title = Language for inclusion (Sign language in Sudan). Film by Karen Andrae/ADD International. | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5KZm0KrnfU | language = English | publisher = YouTube | location = Sudan | accessdate = 21 December 2021}} By 2009, the Sudanese National Union of the Deaf had worked out a Unified Sudanese Sign Language, but it had not yet been widely disseminated.