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Amami O Shima Sign Language

Amami O Shima Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Japan. Glottolog rates it moribund.

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Amami O Shima Sign Language · 28.3°N 129.4°E

Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar, unrelated to the spoken languages around them.

Koniya Sign (Japanese: 古仁屋手話, romanized: Koniya Shuwa), or Amami Ōshima Sign (AOSL; 奄美大島手話, Amamiōshima Shuwa) is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In the region of Koniya on the island, there exist a high incidence of congenital deafness, which is dominant and tends to run in a few families; moreover, the difficulty of the terrain has kept these families largely separated, so that there is extreme lexical geographical diversity across the island, and AOSL is therefore perhaps not a single language.

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