Bamako Sign Language | |
Also Known As: | Malian Sign Language |
States: | Mali |
Region: | Bamako |
Familycolor: | Sign |
Family: | Deaf-community sign language |
Speakers: | 25,000 |
Date: | 2021 |
Ref: | e25 |
Speakers Label: | Users |
Iso3: | bog |
Glotto: | bama1249 |
Glottorefname: | Langue de Signes Malienne |
Bamako Sign Language, also known as Malian Sign Language, or LaSiMa is a sign language that developed outside the Malian educational system, in the urban tea-circles of Bamako where deaf men gathered after work. It is used predominantly by men, and is threatened by the educational use of American Sign Language, which is the language of instruction for those deaf children who go to school.