Ben Braithwaite 2016

Braithwaite, Ben. 2016. Sign language: Caribbean. In Gertz, Genie and Patrick Boudreault (eds.), The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, 791-792. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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  address    = {Thousand Oaks, CA},
  author     = {Ben Braithwaite},
  booktitle  = {The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia},
  editor     = {Gertz, Genie and Patrick Boudreault},
  pages      = {791-792},
  publisher  = {Sage},
  title      = {Sign language: Caribbean},
  volume     = {3},
  year       = {2016},
  besttxt    = {ptxt2\north_america\braithwaite_sign-caribbean2016_o.txt},
  cfn        = {africa\braithwaite_sign-caribbean2016.pdf},
  fn         = {africa\braithwaite_sign-caribbean2016.pdf, south_america\gertz_deaf2016_o.pdf, north_america\braithwaite_sign-caribbean2016_o.pdf},
  hhtype     = {overview},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  lgcode     = {Providence Island (Colombia), Jamaican Country Sign or Konchri Sain (KS), Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands, Kajana --- a maroon village in the Surinamese amazon = Kajana Sign Language [NOCODE_Kajana-Sign], Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL) was created by successive cohorts of pupils, Similar circumstances led to the emergence of Cuban Sign Language = Cuban Sign Language [csf], Puerto Rico an indigenous sign language PRSL may have been in existence prior to the establishment of the first Deaf school though after over a century of language contact PRSL now seems to be quite close to ASL, Jamaican Sign Language, Dominican Sign Language [doq]},
  macro_area = {North America, South America},
  src        = {hh}
}

Document types

Languages

Name in source Glottolog languoid
Providence Island (Colombia)
    Jamaican Country Sign or Konchri Sain (KS)
      Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands
        Kajana --- a maroon village in the Surinamese amazon
        Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL) was created by successive cohorts of pupils
          Similar circumstances led to the emergence of Cuban Sign Language
          Puerto Rico an indigenous sign language PRSL may have been in existence prior to the establishment of the first Deaf school though after over a century of language contact PRSL now seems to be quite close to ASL
            Jamaican Sign Language
              Dominican Sign Language