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Somali Sign Language (SSL) is a sign language used by the deaf community in Somaliland and Djibouti.

Somali Sign Language
SSL
Native toSomaliland, Djibouti
Language family
  • Somali Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

In the 1980s a school for the deaf was established in the Somali Kenyan town of Wajir by Annalena Tonelli. Students there became fluent in Kenyan Sign Language. In 1997, three graduates from Wajir helped establish the first school for the deaf in Somaliland called the Annalena School for the Deaf named after the late Annalena Tonelli, in Borama. One of the teachers at Boroma soon founded a school in Djibouti, and, with a bit more difficulty, another was established in Hargeisa.[1]


See also



References


  1. Woodford, Doreen E. (2006). "The beginning and growth of a new language: Somali Sign Language". Enabling Education Network. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 30 August 2013.

На других языках


- [en] Somali Sign Language

[it] Lingua dei segni somala

La lingua dei segni somala (SSL, Somalian Sign Language) è una lingua dei segni sviluppata spontaneamente da bambini sordi in numerose scuole in Somalia, in particolare nello stato semi-indipendente dello Somaliland.



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