Mali: Langue des Signes Malienne - Projet LaSiMa - Malian sign language

Submitted by sociolingo on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 15:50.

(Imported from Sociolingo's Mali blog which is now dormant)

Not long ago I did a post on Sociolingo's Africa of a newspaper article about plans for a uniform sign language for Africa. Now, I do realise this can be a contentious issue and that there are lots of grassroots organisations involved in African sign languages.

Victoria Nyst kindly sent me a link to a project she is involved in in Mali, and I think you may be interested to hear about it.

Langue des Signes Malienne - Projet LaSiMa is involved in documenting the indigenous sign language (la SiMa) in Mali which is now considered an endangered language because of the spread of American Sign Language in Mali.

Here is a description of their description and documentation aims.

Here are some links about sign languages in Mali and other countries.

Please contact Dr Nyst if you want more information.

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