Kenyan Sign Language

Kenyan Sign Language (KSL)
Native toKenya, Somalia
Native speakers
unknown; 300,000–600,000 deaf (2007, 2011)[1]
Unknown. May have connections to British Sign Language and American Sign Language; some signs from French (Belgian) Sign Language
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3xki
Glottologkeny1241

Kenyan Sign Language (English: KSL, Swahili: LAK) is a sign language is used by the deaf community in Kenya and Somalia. It is used by over half of Kenya's estimated 600,000 deaf population. There are some dialect differences between Kisumu (western Kenya), Mombasa (eastern Kenya) and Somalia. (See Somali Sign Language.)