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South African Sign Language (SASL, Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal) is the primary sign language used by deaf people in South Africa.The South African government added a National Language Unit for South African Sign Language in 2001. [2]
Somali Sign Language: Kenyan SL: South African Sign Language: Irish & British (SASL) Sudanese sign languages: village & local? Government proposal to unify local languages Tanzanian sign languages: local (seven independent languages, one for each deaf school in Tanzania, with little mutual influence) Tebul Sign Language: village
At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal in legal status.
World Atlas, an online site that studies demographics, says only 41 countries recognise sign language as an official language, just four of them in Africa - Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
There are eleven official names of South Africa, [1] one in each of its 12 official languages. The number is surpassed only by India. The number is surpassed only by India. These languages include English , Afrikaans , the Nguni languages ( Zulu , Xhosa , Ndebele , and Swazi ), the Sotho-Tswana languages ( Tswana , Sotho , and Pedi ), Venda ...
Many African countries have national sign languages, such as Algerian Sign Language, Tunisian Sign Language, Ethiopian Sign Language. Other sign languages are restricted to small areas or single villages, such as Adamorobe Sign Language in Ghana. Tanzania has seven, one for each of its schools for the Deaf, all of which are discouraged.
Sotho–Tswana languages; South African Sign Language; List of South African slang words; Sumayela Ndebele language; Swazi language; T. Tamil language; Telugu language;
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