Hawai'i Sign Language
Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi
Hawai'i Sign Language是一种手语，主要分布在美国。按 Glottolog 的评估，它的濒危程度为“濒临灭绝”。
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。
Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hawaiian Sign Language), also known as, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi Pidgin Sign Language, is an indigenous sign language native to Hawaiʻi. Historical records document its presence on the islands as early as the 1820s, but HSL was not formally recognized by linguists until 2013.
Although previously believed to be related to American Sign Language (ASL), the two languages are unrelated. In 2013, HSL was used by around 40 people, mostly over 80 years old. An HSL–ASL creole, Creole Hawaiʻi Sign Language (CHSL), is used by approximately 40 individuals in the generations between those who signed HSL exclusively and those who sign ASL exclusively. Since the 1940s, ASL has almost fully replaced the use of HSL on the islands of Hawaiʻi and CHSL is likely to also be lost in the next 50 years. HSL is considered critically endangered.
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