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Adamorobe Sign Language or Adasl is a village sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana. It is used by about 30 deaf and 1370 hearing people (2003).[2][3]

Adamorobe Sign Language
Mumu kasa
Native toGhana
Regioneastern Ghana, Adamorobe village
Native speakers
40 deaf (2012)[1]
Many of the 3,500 hearing villagers (2012) sign to varying degrees
Language family
Village sign language, West African gestural area
Language codes
ISO 639-3ads
Glottologadam1238
ELPAdamorobe Sign Language

The Adamorobe community is notable for its unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness (genetic recessive autosome). As of 2012, about 1.1% of the total population is deaf, but the percentage was as high as 11% in 1961 before the local chief instituted a policy prohibiting deaf people to marry other deaf.[4] Deaf people are fully incorporated into the community.

Under these circumstances, AdaSL has developed as an indigenous sign language, fully independent from the country's standard Ghanaian Sign Language (which is related to American Sign Language). AdaSL is a shared sign language which differs from urban sign languages such as Ghanaian Sign Language because the majority of speakers of a shared sign language aren't actually deaf. National sign languages usually emerge for the purpose of use by deaf individuals such as those attending schools specifically for the deaf. This important feature of shared sign languages alters the way it is maintained, developed, and shared. A historical example of a shared signing community is the island Martha's Vineyard (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language).[5]

AdaSL shares signs and prosodic features with some other sign languages in the region, such as Bura Sign Language, but it has been suggested these similarities are due to culturally shared gestures rather than a genetic relationship. AdaSL has features that set it apart from the sign languages of large deaf communities studied so far, including the absence of the type of classifier construction that expresses motion or location (sometimes called "entity classifiers"). Instead, AdaSL uses several types of serial verb constructions also found in the surrounding spoken language, Akan. Frishberg suggests that AdaSL may be related to the "gestural trade jargon used in the markets throughout West Africa".[6] Thus AdaSL provides an interesting domain for research on cross-linguistic sign languages.

For over a decade, the deaf children of the village have attended a boarding school in Mampong-Akuapem, where the ASL based Ghanaian Sign Language is used. As a consequence, this language has become the first language of these children and their command of AdaSL is decreasing. This is likely to lead to a complete shift of the deaf community in Adamorobe to Ghanaian Sign Language. As such, AdaSL is an endangered sign language.


References


  1. Adamorobe Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Nyst, Victoria; Baker, Anne (2003). "The phonology of name signs: a comparison between the sign languages of Uganda, Mali, Adamorobe and The Netherlands". In Baker, Anne; van den Bogaerde, Beppie; Crasborn, Otto (eds.). Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research: Selected papers from TISLR 2000. Hamburg: Signum. pp. 71–80.
  3. Nyst, Victoria (2004). Verb series of non-agentive motion in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana). Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8, University of Barcelona, 1 October 2004.
  4. Kusters, Annelies (2012). ""The Gong Gong Was Beaten"—Adamorobe: A "Deaf Village" in Ghana and its Marriage Prohibition for Deaf Partners". Sustainability. 4 (12): 2765–2784. doi:10.3390/su4102765.
  5. Kusters, Annelies (April 2014). "Language Ideologies in the Shared Signing Community of Adamorobe". ProQuest 1510382407. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Nancy Frishberg (1987). Ghanaian Sign Language. In: Cleve, J. Van (ed.) Gallaudet encyclopaedia of deaf people and deafness. New York: McGraw-Gill Book Company.

Further reading





На других языках

[de] Adamorobe-Gebärdensprache

Die Adamorobe-Gebärdensprache ist eine eigenständige Gebärdensprache, die ausschließlich von der einheimischen Bevölkerung der Ortschaft Adamorobe im westafrikanischen Land Ghana benutzt wird.
- [en] Adamorobe Sign Language

[es] Lengua de señas adamorobe

La Lengua de señas Adamorobe (LSAda), se conoce al sureste de Ghana, en África, donde se encuentra un poblado cuyos habitantes en su mayoría oyentes, han desarrollado una lengua de señas.

[fr] Langue des signes d'Adamorobe

La langue des signes d'Adamorobe, (en anglais : Adamorobe Sign Language, AdaSL) est la langue des signes indigène utilisée par les personnes sourdes et la plupart des personnes entendantes (à des degrés de maîtrise variables) du village d'Adamorobe dans l'Est du Ghana.

[ru] Жестовый язык Адаморобе

Адаморобе (Adamorobe Sign Language, AdaSL) — деревенский жестовый язык, распространённый в деревне Адаморобе Восточной области в Гане. Самоназвание языка mumu kasa дословно означает «язык глухих»[1]. Всего его используют около 30 глухих и 1370 слышащих человек. Справочник Ethnologue сообщает в общей сложности о 3400 носителях этого языка, включая слышащих, но последняя перепись упоминает о 1400 человек.


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