Nanabin Sign Language
Nanabin Sign Language is a family sign language of the coastal Fante village of Ekumfi Nanabin in the Central Region of Ghana, ca. 8 km east of Mankessim. It is used by three generations of a single family which is mostly deaf. The second generation are bilingual in Ghanaian Sign Language. Nanabin SL is similar to Adamorobe Sign Language in certain conventionalized signs deriving from Akan hearing culture. Both use lax handshapes and portray events from the perspective of the character rather than of the observer.
primaryTopic
Nanabin Sign Language
Nanabin Sign Language is a family sign language of the coastal Fante village of Ekumfi Nanabin in the Central Region of Ghana, ca. 8 km east of Mankessim. It is used by three generations of a single family which is mostly deaf. The second generation are bilingual in Ghanaian Sign Language. Nanabin SL is similar to Adamorobe Sign Language in certain conventionalized signs deriving from Akan hearing culture. Both use lax handshapes and portray events from the perspective of the character rather than of the observer.
has abstract
La langue des signes de Nanabi ...... que de celui de l'observateur.
@fr
Nanabin Sign Language is a fam ...... r rather than of the observer.
@en
ISO 639-3 code
spoken in
Wikipage page ID
37,362,911
Wikipage revision ID
648,040,678
family
village sign language, West African gestural area
familycolor
glotto
glottorefname
Nanabin Sign Language
speakers
hypernym
comment
La langue des signes de Nanabi ...... que de celui de l'observateur.
@fr
Nanabin Sign Language is a fam ...... r rather than of the observer.
@en
label
Langue des signes de Nanabin
@fr
Nanabin Sign Language
@en
wasDerivedFrom
isPrimaryTopicOf
name
Nanabin Sign Language
@en