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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Name in source | Glottolog languoid |
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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 |