Koniya Sign | |
Nativename: | Amami Ōshima Sign |
States: | Japan |
Region: | Amami Ōshima |
Familycolor: | sign |
Family: | village sign |
Speakers: | 4 |
Date: | 2020 |
Ref: | e25 |
Iso3: | jks |
Glotto: | amam1247 |
Glottorefname: | Amami O Shima Sign Language |
Koniya Sign, or Amami Ōshima Sign (AOSL;) 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 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.