Chatino Sign Language Explained

Chatino Sign Language
States:Mexico
Region:Oaxaca
Ethnicity:Chatino
Speakers:11 deaf in San Juan Quiahije
Date:2015 survey
Ref:[1]
Speakers2:also used by some hearing people
Familycolor:Sign
Family:family sign
Iso3:none
Glotto:chat1269
Glottorefname:San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language

San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language is an emerging village sign language of the indigenous Chatino villages of San Juan Quiahije and Cieneguilla in Oaxaca, Mexico, used by both the deaf and some of the hearing population.[2] It is apparently unrelated to Mexican Sign Language. As of 2014, there is a National Science Foundation-funded study and also a National Institutes of Health-funded study of the development of this language.[3]

Non-signing hearing people in the village use various gestures for negation when speaking, and these are retained in Chatino Sign Language. The variability of these signs may be due to the small size of the deaf population in comparison to the number of hearing people who use them as co-speech gestures.

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Notes and References

  1. Lynn . Hou . Kate . Mesh . Negation in Chatino Sign . Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 11) . University College . London . July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061919/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/tislr/abstracts/tislr11_submission_266.pdf# . 2016-03-04.
  2. News: The Discovery of a New Language Can Help Explain How We Communicate . Erard . Michael . . April 17, 2014 .
  3. News: Feb 26, 2014 . Deaf researcher studies emergence of new signed language in Mexico . The Daily Texan . University of Texas at Austin .