| Koniya Sign | |
|---|---|
| Amami Ōshima Sign | |
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | Amami Ōshima |
Native speakers | 4 (2020)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jks |
| Glottolog | amam1247 |
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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Bibliography[edit]
- Osugi, Yutaka; Supalla, Ted; Webb, Rebecca (1999). "The use of word elicitation to identify distinctive gestural systems on Amami Island". Sign Language & Linguistics. 2 (1): 87–112. doi:10.1075/sll.2.1.12osu.
- ^ Koniya Sign at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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