Koniya Sign Language Explained

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.

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