奄美大岛手语
Amami O Shima Sign Language
奄美大岛手语是一种手语,主要分布在日本。按 Glottolog 的评估,它的濒危程度为“垂危”。
手语是完整的自然语言,有自己的语法;它们与当地口语并不同源。
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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