Kafr Qasem Sign Language
Village sign language of Israel
| Kafr Qasem Sign | |
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| KQSL | |
| لغة الإشارة القاسم (Arabic) Lughat il-Ishārah il-Qasim | |
| Native to | Israel |
| Region | Kafr Qasem |
Native speakers | 50 (2020)[1] |
Language family | village sign |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sqx |
| Glottolog | kafr1234 |
Kafr Qasem Sign Language (لغة الإشارة الكفر قاسم (Arabic) Lughat il-Ishārah il-Kafr Qasim) is a village sign language at Israel.[2]
The language is in the process of being documented, mainly at the University of Haifa. Kafr Qasem is characterized by a relatively high percentage of people with a hearing impairment, and apparently, their sign language developed spontaneously over the years, even if it was influenced by Israeli Sign Language and local sign languages from the region.[3]
The beginning of the deaf community in Kfar Qasam about at the baginning to the 20th century, when the villager married a deaf woman from Mazraa. The couple had deaf children, who in turn married and had more deaf children. In 1951, there were 1800 residents in Kfar Qasam, 12 of whom were deaf. The need to communicate with them led to the development of a sign language shared by the locals – deaf and hearing.[4]
References
- ^ Kafr Qasem Sign at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Kastner, Itamar, Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler, and Svetlana Dachkovsky. 2014. The emergence of embedded structure: insights from Kafr Qasem Sign Language. Frontiers in Psychology Vol 5, article 525. Web access
- ^ "המילון המקוונן לשפת סימנים כפר קאסם – Sign Language Research Lab". 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
- ^ "סוד השפה הנעלמת של חרשי כפר קאסם". המקום הכי חם (in Hebrew). 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
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Languages of Israel
- Hebrew
- Abu Kaf
- Al-Atrash
- Al-Sayyid
- El-Naim
- Ein Mahel
- Ghardaian
- Israeli
- Kafr Qasem
- Levantine Arabic
- Russian
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