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Sri Lankan Sign Language
Native toSri Lanka
Native speakers
unknown number of 13,000 deaf people (1986)[1]
Language family
Deaf-community sign languages
Language codes
ISO 639-3sqs
Glottologsril1237
ELPSri 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.

  1. ^ Sri Lankan Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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