Ghanaian Sign Language
| Ghanaian Sign Language | ||
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Spoken in |
 Ghana
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| speaker | not specified | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | Sign language of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
so-called |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
The Ghanaian sign language was brought to Ghana by the missionary Andrew Foster in 1957 , as a kinship to the American Sign Language (ASL) and the Nigerian sign language .
Compared to the ASL, there are some new and local sign words and some that differ from the ASL. Large parts of the deaf population are still unable to communicate due to insufficient promotion of sign language. Programs have been initiated that are dedicated to this task.
See also
literature
- Nancy Frishberg: Ghanaian Sign Language . In: Cleve, J. Van (Ed.): Gallaudet encyclopaedia of deaf people and deafness. NY: McGraw-Gill Book Company, 1987.