Seychelles Sign Language, also known as Lalang Siny Seselwa, is a sign language used by deaf and hard of hearing Seychellois Creole people.[2] Formalization of the language began as an effort in 2008 between representatives of the Seychellois Association for People with Hearing Impairment and the Paris-based Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris.[3] In 2011, the Seychelles government, with support from UNESCO, began work on a standardization project for the language, which culminated in 2019 the first dictionary of Seychelles Sign.[4][5] The language shows influence from French, American, and Mauritian Sign Language.[6]
^Seychelles Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Gendrot, M. & Gébert, A. (2010). "Les projets de développement de la Langue des signes mauricienne (MSL) et de la Langue des signes seychelloise (SSL)". La Nouvelle Revue de l'Adaptation et de la Scolarisation (in French). 49: 171. doi:10.3917/nras.049.0171.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Bann sourd i devlop lalang sinny Seselwa" [Deaf people develop Seychellois language]. Seychelles Nation (in Seselwa Creole French). Mahe, Seychelles. 12 March 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
^"Up Close … with Anita Gardner, chairperson of the Association for People with Hearing Impairment (APHI)". Seychelles Nation. Mahe, Seychelles. 4 February 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
^Laurence, Daniel (16 November 2019). "Hearing-impaired community in Seychelles gets its first sign language dictionary". Victoria, Seychelles. Seychelles News Agency. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
^Risler, Annie (26–28 September 2019). Pointing Gestures and Personal References in Seychelles Sign Language (SSL) & Creole Seychellois (CS)(PDF). 13th conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Hamburg, Germany. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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