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Name:
South African Sign Language
Type:
Language
Alternate Name:
South African Sign Language
Number of speakers:
12,100 deaf persons including 6,000 Black, 2,000 English white, 2,000 Afrikaans white, 1,200 Coloured, 900 Indian (VanCleve 1986)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
sfs
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Deaf Sign Languages
Parent Subgroup:
African Deaf Sign Languages; African Deaf Sign Language (adsl)
Map of South African Sign Language
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