Sign Language: Inuit Sign Language

Comments on subclassification

Joke Schuit 2014

AES status:
moribund
Source:
Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:
Inuit Sign Language (2063-iks) = Severely Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available) (IUR is used by less than 40 people as their first language. Some of these people use more and more ASL... Furthermore, most of these deaf adults who use IUR as their main means of communication mainly use the language with hearing signers, who are second language users. Only on rare occasions is IUR used between two deaf native signers. And as no deaf children acquire IUR as their native language, the status of the language is highly endangered.)

(see Schuit 2015)

show big map

References

Details Name Title Any field ca Year Pages Doctype ca Provider da