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- The sign language used in Ethiopia and in the Ethiopian Deaf Community in the diaspora is known as Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) (Tamene, 2017). The sign language that is now in use in Ethiopia used to have various names such as Amharic Sign Language, deaf language, and sign language.
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A number of Ethiopian sign languages have been used in various Ethiopian schools for the deaf since 1971, and at the primary level since 1956. Ethiopian Sign Language, presumably a national standard, is used in primary, secondary, and—at Addis Ababa University—tertiary education, and on national television.
Ethiopian sign languages. Keyboard layout. QWERTY. The languages of Ethiopia include the official languages of Ethiopia, its national and regional languages, and a large number of minority languages, as well as foreign languages.
- English
- 33.8%
- 29.3%
- QWERTY
Ethiopia - African Sign Languages Resource Center. Total Population. 109 million. Deaf Population. 2.5 Million. Number of Sign Language Users. Nation's Official Language (s. Amharic, Afan Oromo, Tigrigna, Afar and Somali (5 official language) Other Languages. The number of established languages listed in Ethnologue is 92. Some of these are: Aari.
Ethiopian Sign Language is the language used by the deaf community in Ethiopia; its history is closely connected with deaf education (see § 47.5 ). It is a proper language, independent of any spoken language in the country.
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan. They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages , itself a sub-branch of Semitic , part of the Afroasiatic language family .
- North Ethiopic, South Ethiopic
When the education of the deaf was introduced to Ethiopia by religious missionaries, they brought along sign languages that were in use in their own respective countries. The Latin alphabet was also being used for writing. While the English language was and still is in use in Ethiopia, Amharic is the working language of the country and students ...
Alemayehu Teklemariam1 . Abstract: The purpose of this article is an attempt to demonstrate the knowledge gap in understanding the nature of sign language through analysis of its system to sensitize and encourage researchers who want to study the linguistic nature of the Ethiopian Sign Language.
