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Berbey Sign Language

Berbey Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Mali.

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

Berbey Sign Language is a family sign language of the village of Berbey in the Hombori region of Mali. The local oral language is Humburi Senni. The language is currently spoken by two brothers (one of whom is deaf) and their families, including four deaf children. In the brothers' father's generation, all signers were deaf.

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