Albarradas Sign Language | |
States: | Mexico |
Region: | Oaxaca |
Speakers: | some members of a community of 1,000 |
Familycolor: | sign language |
Family: | village sign language |
Iso3: | lsc |
Glotto: | alba1273 |
Glottorefname: | Albarradas Sign Language |
Albarradas Sign Language is an indigenous village sign language of Mexico.[1] It arose approximately 150 years ago in the Zapotec villages of Santa Catarina Albarradas, San Antonio Albarradas and possibly one other nearby town, due to a high incidence of congenital deafness.