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Adamorobe Sign Language or AdaSL is a village sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana. It is used by about 30 deaf and 1370 hearing people (2003). The Adamorobe community is notable for its unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness (genetic recessive autosome).
- 40 deaf (2012), Many of the 3,500 hearing villagers (2012) sign to varying degrees
- Village sign language, West African gestural area
- eastern Ghana, Adamorobe village
- Ghana
Mar 16, 2023 · Stephen Nartey March 16, 2023. Adamorobe sign language/Photo credit: StoryMine. Adamorobe, a village in the West African nation of Ghana, is known as the ‘deaf community’ due to a high...
Sep 5, 2022 · Native to: Adamorobe village, Ghana. Number of native speakers: 35. Spoken by: Adamorobe villagers. Learn some: You can learn how to sign the days of the week with this YouTube video. Interesting facts: Adamorobe has a much higher incidence of deafness than the rest of Ghana.
Nov 11, 2019 · One Village, Two Sign Languages: Qualia, Intergenerational Relationships and the Language Ideological Assemblage in Adamorobe, Ghana - Kusters - 2020 - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology - Wiley Online Library.
- Annelies Kusters
- 2020
Sep 9, 2016 · Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL) is used in Adamorobe, an Akan village of about 1400 inhabitants with a high incidence of hereditary deafness. AdaSL is an old, established sign language, that has existed in the village for as long as anyone can remember.
Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL) is a “shared sign language,” used by all deaf people and a large number of hearing Akan-speaking people. Deaf schoolchildren from Adamorobe attend a school where Ghanaian Sign Language (GSL) is taught.
Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL) is an indigenous sign language found in Adamorobe, a village in eastern Ghana, Africa. This village has an unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness, in which there are about 300 deaf and 900 hearing people (Nyst).
