Sign Languages Used in different African countries

Algeria
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Algerian Sign Language
Botswana
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • American Sign Language
  • Danish Sign Language
  • German Sign Language
Burkina Faso
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • American Sign Language
Burundi
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • American Sign Language
Cameroon
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • 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.
Chad
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Chadian Sign Language (derived from American Sign Language via Nigerian Sign Language) (Also contains many French signs)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the (formerly Zaïre)
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Congolese Sign Language
  • French Sign Language
Djibouti
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Somali Sign Language (used among deaf ethnic Somalis living in Djibouti)
Egypt
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Egyptian Sign Language
Ethiopia
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Ethiopian Sign Language Different signs are used in different regional schools for the deaf.
  • American Sign Language
  • Finnish Sign Language
  • Swedish Sign Language
Ghana
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Ghanian Sign Language (descended from American Sign Language)
  • Adamorobe Sign Language
  • American Sign Language
Guinea
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Guinean Sign Language
Kenya
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Kenyan Sign Language
  • Belgian Sign Language (in one school only)
  • British Sign Language (in one school only)
  • American Sign Language
Libya
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Libyan Sign Language
Madagascar (Malagasy Republic)
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • American Sign Language
  • Malagasy Sign Language
  • Norwegian Sign Language
Mali
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • 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
Morocco
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Moroccan Sign Language (developed by the Peace Corps from local and American signs)
  • Algerian Sign Language (in town of Oujda)
Mozambique
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Mozambican Sign Language
Namibia
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Namibian Sign Language
Nigeria
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • 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
Rwanda
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • French Sign Language
Senegal
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Mbour Sign Language
Somalia
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Somali Sign Language (derived, beginning about 1996, from Kenyan Sign Language)
South Africa
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • 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
Swaziland
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • British Sign Language
Tanzania
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Tanzanian Sign Language
  • American Sign Language
  • Danish Sign Language
  • Finnish Sign Language
  • German Sign Language
  • Swedish Sign Language
Togo
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • American Sign Language
  • French Sign Language
Tunisia
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Tunisian Sign Language
Uganda
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Ugandan Sign Language (in 1988, several local sign languages were merged into one)
  • American Sign Language
  • British Sign Language
Zambia
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGES:
  • Zambian Sign Language
  • American Sign Language
Zimbabwe
DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE:
  • Zimbabwe Sign Language (Zimsign)
    • DIALECTS:
      • Zimbabwe School Sign Language
      • Masvingo School Sign Language
      • Zimbabwe Community Sign Language
 
 
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