Jumla Sign Language

Jumla Sign Language
जुम्ला साङ्केतिक भाषा
Native toNepal
RegionJumla
Native speakers
8 monolinguals (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jus
Glottologjuml1239

Jumla Sign Language (Nepali: जुम्ला साङ्केतिक भाषा, romanized: Jumlā Sāṅkētika Bhāṣā) is a village sign language of the town of Jumla in western Nepal. There is a Nepalese Sign Language school in Jumla, and that the students come from a 1–2-day walk away and do not speak Jumla Sign Language.[1]

  1. ^ a b Jumla Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)