Amami Oshima Sign Language

Amami Island Sign
Amami Oshima Sign
Native to	Japan
Region	Amami Oshima
Language family	village sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`amam1247`^[1]

Amami Island Sign, or Amami Oshima Sign (Amami O Shima Sign, AOSL), is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Oshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In Koniya region of 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.

References

Osugi, Yutaka; Ted Supalla; and Rebecca Webb (1999). "The use of word elicitation to identify distinctive gestural systems on Amami Island." Sign Language & Linguistics, 2:1:87–112

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Amami O Shima Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Japan

National language	Japanese Variants

Indigenous languages	Ainu Ryukyuan Amami Ōshima Tokunoshima Okinoerabu Yoron Kunigami Okinawan Miyako Yaeyama Yonaguni

Non-Indigenous languages	Brazilian Portuguese Chinese Cantonese Hokkien Hoochew Mandarin English Russian Turkish Vietnamese Zainichi Korean

Sign languages	Japanese Sign Language Amami Oshima Sign

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Amami Oshima Sign Language

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