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Koniya Sign | |
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Amami Oshima Sign | |
Native to | Japan |
Region | Amami Ōshima |
Native speakers | 4 (2020) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
jks |
Glottolog |
amam1247 |
Koniya Sign, or Amami Oshima Sign (AOSL), is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In the region of Koniya [ 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.
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