UH Manoa Announces Course on Hawai’i Sign Language

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Of the more than 7,000 languages used in the world today, half are so endangered that they are likely to be extinct in 50 years.  Hawai`i Sign Language (HSL), with fewer than 10 fluent users, is one such language.  HSL, discovered by researchers here at UH, is a language isolate unrelated to any other sign language and developed indigenously in Hawai`i. HSL with a basic word order of Subject+Object+Verb also is distinct grammatically from any other language used in Hawai`i.Continue reading by downloading the PDF below.

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