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| Koniya Sign | |
|---|---|
| Amami Ōshima Sign | |
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | Amami Ōshima |
Native speakers | 4 (2020)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jks |
| Glottolog | amam1247 |
Koniya Sign (Japanese:古仁屋手話,romanized: Koniya Shuwa), orAmami Ōshima Sign (AOSL;奄美大島手話,Amamiōshima Shuwa) is avillage sign language, or group of languages, onAmami Ōshima, the largest island in theAmami Islands ofJapan. In the region ofKoniya [ja] on 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.
