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},
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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},
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}
| 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 |