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Kata Kolok (literally deaf talk), also known as Benkala Sign Language and Balinese Sign Language, is a village sign language
which is indigenous to two neighbouring villages of in northern Bali, Indonesia. The main village, Bengkala, has had high
incidences of deafness for over 7 generations. Notwithstanding the biological time depth of the recessive mutation that causes
deafness, the first substantial cohort of deaf signers did not occur until five generations ago, and this event marks the
emergence of Kata Kolok (de Vos 2012). Kata Kolok is unrelated to spoken Balinese and lacks certain contact sign phenomena
that often arise when a sign language and an oral language are in close contact, such as fingerspelling and mouthing. It is
also unrelated to other sign languages. It differs from other known sign languages in a number of respects: Signers make extensive
use of cardinal directions and real-world locations to organize the signing space, and they do not use a metaphorical “time
line” for time reference. Kata Kolok is the only known sign language which predominantly deploys the absolute Frame of Reference.
Deaf people in the village express themselves using special cultural forms such as deaf dance and martial arts and occupy
special ritual and social roles, including digging graves and maintaining water pipes. Deaf and hearing villagers alike share
a belief in a deaf god. The sign language has been acquired by at least five generations of deaf, native signers and features
in all aspects of village life, including political, professional, educational, and religious settings. The Max Planck Institute
for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies have archived over 100 hours
of Kata Kolok video data. The metadata of this corpus are accessible online (see www. mpi. nl). |
Names (more)[en] Bengkala Sign Language[id] Kata Kolok [pt] Língua de Sinais Kata Kolok [th] ภาษากาตา โกโลก |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Bengkala Sign Language. |
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