Rennellese Sign Language
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Extinct home sign language of Rennell Island
| Rennellese Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Solomon Islands |
| Region | Rennell Island |
| Extinct | ca. 2000[1] |
none (home sign) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (rsi deprecated in 2017 due to spurious)[2] |
rsi.html | |
| Glottolog | renn1236 |
| ELP | Rennell Island Sign Language |
Rennellese Sign Language is an extinct form of home sign documented from Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands in 1974.[3] It was developed about 1915 by a deaf person named Kagobai and used by his hearing family and friends, but apparently died with him; he was the only deaf person on the island, and there never was an established, self-replicating community of signers. Accordingly, in January 2017 its ISO 639-3 code [rsi] was retired.[4] Kuschel,[3] the only source of information about this communication system, cites no evidence to suggest that there was any contact with any sign language.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Extinct Languages: The Languages We Have Lost in the 21st Century". Atomic Scribe. 2022年01月31日. Retrieved 2024年10月05日.
Extinct: Around 2000
- ^ "Rennellese Sign Language". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2008年09月28日. Retrieved 2024年10月02日.
- ^ a b Kuschel, Rolf (1974). A Lexicon of Signs from a Polynesian Outliner Island: A Description of 217 Signs as Developed and Used by Kagobai, the Only Deaf-Mute of Rennell Island (PDF). København: Københavns Universitet. pp. 187 pages. ISBN 9788750015062 . Retrieved 2016年01月22日.
- ^ "ISO 639-3 Registration Authority Change request documentation for: 2016-002". ISO 639. SIL International. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
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