Sinasina Sign Language

Sinasina Sign Language
Sinasina Sign Language
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sinasina, Chimbu Province
Native speakers	5 deaf (2019); 25 to 50 hearing
Language family	village sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	sina1273

Sinasian Sign Language (SSSL) is a village sign language of the Sinasina valley in Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea. This language is used by approximately 3 deaf and 50 hearing individuals, including members of the Kere community. SSSL was first encountered and reported by linguist Samantha Rarrick in 2016. Documentation efforts are ongoing.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Sinasina Sign Language may have lexical similarities with another village sign language in the region, Kailge Sign Language,^[4] but its genetic affiliation has yet to be established.^[5]^[6]

References

^ Rarrick, Samantha. 2019. "Training Signers to Document Sinasina Sign Language (Papua New Guinea). 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. https://www.academia.edu/38721591/Training_Signers_to_Document_Sinasina_Sign_Language_Papua_New_Guinea
^ Rarrick, Samantha. 2019. "Documenting the Kere Community's Indigenous Languages: Kere & Sinasina Sign Language." Linguistic Society of America's 93rd Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
^ Rarrick, Samantha & Emmanuel Asonye. 2017. "Wellness & Linguistic Barriers in Deaf Communities in Nigeria & Papua New Guinea." 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/42056
^ Lauren Reed & Alan Rumsey, Initial observations of mouth action distribution, type, and variation in Kailge Sign Language, an undocumented sign language of Papua New Guinea, ALS 2017: Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, 6 December 2017
^ Rarrick, Samantha. 2019. "Aksen tasol: Identifying & documenting sign language use in Papua New Guinea. The 8th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics. National Museum of Ethnology. Osaka.
^ Rarrick, Samantha. 2019. "Shifting Attitudes and Uncertain Futures: The Endangerment of Sinasina Sign Language (Papua New Guinea)." Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL XXIII). Sydney Centre for Language Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney.