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Jumla Sign Language

Jumla Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Nepal, by about 8 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Jumla Sign Language · 29.3°N 82.2°E

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

Jumla Sign Language (Nepali: जुम्ला साङ्केतिक भाषा, romanized: Jumlā Sāṅkētika Bhāṣā) is a village sign language of the town of Jumla in western Nepal. There is a Nepalese Sign Language school in Jumla, and that the students come from a 1–2-day walk away and do not speak Jumla Sign Language.

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