Sri Lankan Sign Language | |
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Native to | Sri Lanka |
Native speakers | unknown number of 13,000 deaf people (1986)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sqs |
Glottolog | sril1237 |
ELP | Sri Lankan Sign Language |
Sri Lankan Sign Language (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා සංඥා භාෂාව, romanized: Śrī Laṁkā Saṁgnā Bhāṣāva) is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.