Sign Languages Used in different African countries
Algeria
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- Algerian Sign Language
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- American Sign Language
- Danish Sign Language
- German Sign Language
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- American Sign Language
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- American Sign Language
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- Franco-American Sign Language
- A pidgin language, apparently a mixture of French Sign Language and American Sign Language each brought in by missionaries, reported from Cameroon and elsewhere in Central and West Africa.
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- Chadian Sign Language (derived from American Sign Language via Nigerian Sign Language) (Also contains many French signs)
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- Congolese Sign Language
- French Sign Language
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- Somali Sign Language (used among deaf ethnic Somalis living in Djibouti)
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- Egyptian Sign Language
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- Ethiopian Sign Language Different signs are used in different regional schools for the deaf.
- American Sign Language
- Finnish Sign Language
- Swedish Sign Language
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- Ghanian Sign Language (descended from American Sign Language)
- Adamorobe Sign Language
- American Sign Language
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- Guinean Sign Language
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- Kenyan Sign Language
- Belgian Sign Language (in one school only)
- British Sign Language (in one school only)
- American Sign Language
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- Libyan Sign Language
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- American Sign Language
- Malagasy Sign Language
- Norwegian Sign Language
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- American Sign Language
- Bamako Sign Language Used in one school for the deaf; uncertain whether it is used in the deaf community outside the school.
- French Sign Language
- French Canadian Sign Language
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- Moroccan Sign Language (developed by the Peace Corps from local and American signs)
- Algerian Sign Language (in town of Oujda)
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- Mozambican Sign Language
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- Namibian Sign Language
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- Bura Sign Language
- Nigerian Sign Language (derived from American Sign Language with local and Ghanian sign influences)
- Hausa Sign Language (Maganar Hannu or Managar Bebaye)
- American Sign Language
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- French Sign Language
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- Mbour Sign Language
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- Somali Sign Language (derived, beginning about 1996, from Kenyan Sign Language)
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- South African Sign Language (descended from British Sign Language)
- DIALECTS:
- South African Indian Sign Language (Lenasia School)
- Other school-based dialects exist.
- British Sign Language
- Irish Sign Language
- American Sign Language
- ARTIFICIAL SYSTEM:
- Signed Afrikaans
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- British Sign Language
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- Tanzanian Sign Language
- American Sign Language
- Danish Sign Language
- Finnish Sign Language
- German Sign Language
- Swedish Sign Language
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- American Sign Language
- French Sign Language
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- Tunisian Sign Language
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- Ugandan Sign Language (in 1988, several local sign languages were merged into one)
- American Sign Language
- British Sign Language
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- Zambian Sign Language
- American Sign Language
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- Zimbabwe Sign Language (Zimsign)
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- Zimbabwe School Sign Language
- Masvingo School Sign Language
- Zimbabwe Community Sign Language
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