Kuwaiti Sign Language

Kuwaiti Sign Language
لغة الاشارة الكويتية
Native to	Kuwait
Language family	Arab Sign Language family? Kuwaiti Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`kuwa1252`^[1]

Kuwaiti Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Kuwait. It appears to belong to the Arab sign language family (Hendriks 2008).

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kuwaiti Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Hendriks, Bernadet, 2008. Jordanian Sign Language: aspects of grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective (dissertation)

Languages of Kuwait

Official languages	Arabic (Official) English (Second language)

Native languages	Kuwaiti Arabic Persian

Sign languages	Kuwaiti Sign Language

Sign language

By region^[a]

Sign languages by region

Oceania	Australia: Auslan, Warlpiri, Australian Aboriginal Hawaii Samoan New Zealand Solomon Islands: Rennellese

Asia	Bengali Chinese Philippine Indonesia: Indonesian, Kata Kolok (Benkala, Balinese) India: Alipur, Bengali Indo-Pakistani, Naga Israel: Al-Sayyid Bedouin, Ghardaia, Israeli, Kafr Qasem, Yiddish Japan: Amami Oshima, Japanese Korean Malaysia: Malaysian, Penang, Selangor Mongolian Nepal: Ghandruk, Jhankot, Jumla, Nepalese Persian Saudi Arabia: Saudi Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thailand: Ban Khor, Thai Vietnamese

Africa	Algeria: Algerian, Ghardaia Ghana: Adamorobe, Nanabin Kenyan Mali: Tebul, LaSiMa Nigeria: Bura, Hausa Senegal: Mbour Somalia & Djibouti: Somali South African Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian

Europe	Armenian Austrian Belgium: Flemish, French Belgian British Croatian Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish France: Ghardaia, French, Lyons German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Kosovar Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Northern Ireland Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Slovenian Spain: Catalan, Spanish, Valencian Swedish Swiss Turkey: Mardin, Turkish Ukrainian

North America	Plains Sign Talk Canada: American, Blackfoot, Cree, Ojibwa, Maritime, Quebec, Inuit, Plateau Mexico: Chatino, Mayan, Mexican United States: American (Black American), Blackfeet, Cree, Cheyenne, Ojibwa, Keresan, Martha's Vineyard, Navajo, Navajo Family, Plateau, Sandy River Valley, Henniker

South America	Argentine Belizean Bolivian Brasil: Libras, Ka'apor Old Cayman Chilean Colombia: Colombian, Provisle Costa Rica: Bribri, Brunca, Old Costa Rican, New Costa Rican Ecuadorian Guatemalan: Guatemalan, Mayan Honduras Nicaraguan Paraguayan Peruvian El Salvador: Salvadoran, Old Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan

International	International Sign (Gestuno) Makaton Monastic Signalong

Language
families^[a]

Sign languages by family

Afroasiatic

Mofu-Gudur

Arabic Sign

Iraqi– Levantine	Iraqi Levantine Arabic Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Syrian

Possible	Emirati Saudi Omani

Australian
Aboriginal
Language
Families

Pama– Nyungan	Akitiri Arrernte Manjiljarra Mudburra Ngada Umpila Warlmanpa Walpiri Warramunga Western Desert Western Torres Strait Islander Yir Yoront Yolŋu Diyari Jaralde Kalkutungu Pitha Pitha Warluwara

Mirndi	Djingili

Jarrakan	Miriwoong

E. Trans-Fly	Eastern Torres Strait Islander

Worrorran	Worora Kinship

BANZSL

Swedish	Finnish Finland-Swedish Portuguese Swedish

Chinese Sign

Chinese

Shanghai

Shanghai

Hong Kong
Macau

French Sign

Proto-LSF

American

American
- Black ASL
BIM
Bolivian
Burmese
Cambodian
Costa Rican
Dominican
Francophone African
Ghanaian
Greek
- Cypriot
Jamaican
Kuala Lumpur
Moroccan
Nigerian
Panamanian
Phillippine
Puerto Rican
Quebec
Sierra Leonean
Thai

BISINDO	Jakarta Yogyakarta

Austro-
Hungarian

Russian	Bulgarian Georgian Latvian Mongolian Russian Ukrainian

Yugoslav	Croatian Kosovar Serbian Slovenian Yugoslav

Old Belgian

Danish

Dutch

Italian

Mexican

German Sign

German
Luxembourgish
Polish
Shassi

Indo-European

Armenian Women's

Indo-Pakistani
Sign

Bangalore-Madras Sign Language
Beluchistan Sign Language
Bombay Sign Language
Calcutta Sign Language
Delhi Sign Language
Nepali
North West Frontier Province Sign Language
Punjab-Sindh Sign Language

Japanese Sign

Old Chiangmai–
Bangkok Sign

Mayan Sign

Highland Maya
Nohya

Paraguayan-
Uruguayan Sign

Plains Sign Talk

Blackfoot
Cheyenne
Cree
Navajo
Ojibwa
Plains Sign Talk

Vietnamese Sign

Haiphong
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh City

Providencia–
Cayman Sign

Paget Gorman

Namibian

Kentish

Old Kentish

Chilmark

Chilmark

Martha's Vineyard

Other

International Sign

Isolates

ASL

Extinct
languages

Linguistics

Fingerspelling

Writing

Language
contact

Media

Films (list)
Television programmes (list)

Persons

Organisations

Miscellaneous

^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. ^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages.

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