Bamako Sign Language

Bamako Sign Language
Malian Sign Language
Native to	Mali
Region	Bamako
Users	25,000 (2021)[1]
Language family	Deaf-community sign language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bog
Glottolog	bama1249
ELP	Malian Sign Language

Bamako Sign Language (French: Langue des signes de Bamako), also known as Malian Sign Language, or LaSiMa (Langue des signes malienne) is a sign language that developed outside the Malian educational system, in the urban tea-circles of Bamako where deaf men gathered after work. It is used predominantly by men, and is threatened by the educational use of American Sign Language, which is the language of instruction for those deaf children who go to school.

See also

• Tebul Sign Language, village sign of the Dogon region

References

1. Bamako Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

External links

• Sign languages of Mali
• Sample signs of LaSiMa^{[permanent dead link]}
• Project LaSiMa (YouTube)
• Bamako and Dogon sign languages at the University of Central Lancashire