Kailge Sign Language | |
States: | Papua New Guinea |
Region: | Kailge, Western Highlands Province |
Speakers: | ? |
Familycolor: | sign language |
Family: | village sign |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | kail1256 |
Glottorefname: | Kailge Sign Language |
Kailge Sign Language is a well-developed village sign language of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken over a wide region of small hamlets around the town of Kailge, as well as in Kailge itself, in a Ku Waru–speaking region. It might be characterized as a network of homesign rather than as a single coherent language.[1] Its use of signing space is more similar to that of deaf-community sign languages than that of many village sign languages shared with the hearing community.[2]
KSL has lexical similarities with another village sign language in the region, Sinasina Sign Language.[3]