| Sri Lankan Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Sri Lanka |
Native speakers | unknown number of 13,000 deaf people (1986)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sqs |
| Glottolog | sril1237 |
| ELP | Sri Lankan Sign Language |
Sri Lankan Sign Language (Sinhala:ශ්රී ලංකා සංඥා භාෂාව,romanized: Śrī Laṁkā Saṁgnā Bhāṣāva) is avisual language used bydeaf people inSri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.
Wittmann (1991)[2] posits that the Sri Lankan languages, as a group, are a language isolate ('prototype' sign language), though one developed throughstimulus diffusion from an existing sign language. It is not known if they are related to each other, nor how many there are.
