Rennellese Sign Language
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| Rennellese Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Solomon Islands |
| Extinct | ca. 2000 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rsi |
| Glottolog | renn1236[1] |
Rennellese Sign Language is the extinct village sign language of Rennell Island, which has a high degree of congenital deafness. It was developed about 1915 by a deaf person named Kagobai, and was also used by hearing people in the community.
Classification[edit]
Wittmann (1991)[2] posits that RSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language.
References[edit]
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Rennellese Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]
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