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Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL) is the youngest and perhaps the least known of Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) heritage languages. In fact, it’s one of the youngest languages in the world, having been created over the last 70 years. Here we discuss the remarkable story of its birth, and its importance to the deaf community of T&T.
Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL), sometimes called Trinidadian or Trinbago Sign Language (TSL) is the indigenous deaf sign language of Trinidad and Tobago, originating in about 1943 when the first deaf school opened, the Cascade School for the Deaf.
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View PDF. Endangered Languages Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language. Preliminary research suggests that deaf people in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) were officially brought together 70 years ago at a school for the deaf in the capital city of Port-of-Spain (Braithwaite, Drayton and Lamb 2011). Research into various.
- Alicia V Lamb-Sterling
Abstract. The emergence of a national sign language in Trinidad and Tobago can be traced back to the first deaf school, which was opened in the 1940s. This article describes some of the ways in which signing in the country has been shaped by changing educational practices, and complex, multi-modal language contact.
Thus, it is highly likely that the first school for the deaf played a pivotal role in the development of the language of the deaf in T&T, Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL). The first half of the presentation sets out to present TTSL as an emerging and developing language.
Mar 16, 2019 · Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language. Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL), sometimes called Trinidadian or Trinbago Sign Language (TSL) is the indigenous deaf sign language of Trinidad and Tobago, originating in about 1943 when the first deaf school opened, the Cascade School for the Deaf.
Deaf people in Grenada, St. Vincent, and Trinidad all use ASL and/or SEE in many domains of life. Trinidad, alone, has a developed indigenous sign language, Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL), and many Trinidadian deaf people are motivated to see TTSL developed and increase in prestige and use in community life.
