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Ugandan Sign Language (USL) is the deaf sign language of Uganda. Uganda was the second country in the world to recognize sign
language in its constitution, in 1995. A Ugandan Sign Language Dictionary has been published. However, knowledge of USL is
primarily urban, as access to education for the rural deaf remains poor. Nonetheless, USL is a highly valued element of group
identity among the deaf community. The first Ugandan schools for the deaf opened in 1962, and several sign languages are reported
to have merged in 1988, when sign was allowed in the classroom. This suggests that USL may be a creole of the local languages
that the deaf students created informally in the different schools. There were also influences from ASL, BSL, and Kenyan Sign
Language, the first two from the language of instruction in early classrooms, and the latter from deaf Ugandans who went to
Kenya for higher education. Both the British two-handed manual alphabet and the American manual alphabet are used, with minor
modifications. Finger-spelling and initialized signs using both alphabets are common among people who learned USL formally
as children. Mouthing is also common with abbreviated syllables from both English and Luganda. |
Names (more)[en] Ugandan Sign Language |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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