Sign Languages recognized in Latin America

[Barbara Gerner De Garcia]

I am trying to create an accurate list of Sign Languages in Latin America
recognized by their governments.  According to the WFD’s 2009 report *Deaf
People and Human Rights*, the following Latin American countries recognize
the sign language used by Deaf people in the country:  Brazil, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela.
Furthermore, I found that Chile has since 2010 (Biblioteca Nacional de
Chile, 2013), and Uruguay since 2001 (Republica Oriental del Uruguay,
n.d.).  I am not confident that the list from WFD is 100% accurate as I
have come across some inaccuracies in the 2009 report. Any help or
suggestions are welcome.


Barbara Gerner de Garcia

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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Mike Morgan <mwmosaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> a group of us sign language researchers, mostly based in Nepal and India,
> have been asked to write up an article on "Sign Languages in South Asia"
> for a NEW encyclopedia of deaf studies.
>
> As members of the group focuses on Sign languages of Nepal and India
> (although among us we also have soem experience with a couple other
> neighboruing sign languages), we are interested in collecting basic
> information on Sign Languages of the other South Asian countries (in order
> that the article can have a bit of "balance" ... and to balance decades of
> misleading info regarding the relation between sign languages of the region
> (e.g. Nepali Sign Language is clearly NOT closely related to IPSL).
>
> We already have info from researchers on SL of the Maldives, and have some
> materials as well (varying qauntity and quality) on sign languages in
> Pakistan (esp Karachi) and Sri lanka... but can always do with
> corroborating (or opposing) info.
>
> Also, we have enough info on the various so-called "village sign
> languages" of the subcontinent.
>
> Anyone with first-hand linguistically informed knowledge of any of the
> remaining sign languages (especially: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan),
>
> as the word limit for the article is quite low (1,000 words), the
> following basic info is mostly what is required:
> 1) what is the name of the sign lanuage (in local language(s)
> 2) how standardized is the sign language
> 3) how different is it (lexically, and/or grammatically) from neighbouring
> sign languages, and from British Sign Language and/or American Sign Language
> 4) is there a dictionary for the sign language, and if so, how many
> lexical items are in the dictionary
> 5) what research (if any) is there in/on the sign language
> 6) what finger spelling system(s) is/are generally used within the Deaf
> community?
>
> thanks to all for any help you can provide
>
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Dr. Barbara Gerner de Garcia, Professor
Department of Education
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002-3695

Phone: 202-651-5207
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