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South Rupununi Sign

South Rupununi Sign is a sign language spoken in Guyana.

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South Rupununi Sign · 3.9°N 59.0°W

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

South Rupununi Sign Language is an indigenous village sign language used in at least seven Wapishana villages with a high degree of congenital deafness. The villages are located south of the town of Lethem in the Rupununi savannah of Guyana and Brazil.

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