Somali Sign Language
Somali Sign Language (SSL) refers to sign language used by the deaf community in Somalia.
| Somali Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| SSL | |
| Native to | Somalia |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Kenyan Sign Language in Somaliland and Djibouti
In the 1980s a school for the deaf was established in the Somali Kenyan town of Wajir by Annalena Tonelli. Students there became fluent in Kenyan Sign Language. In 1997, three graduates from Wajir helped establish the first school for the deaf in Somaliland called the Annalena School for the Deaf named after the late Annalena Tonelli, in Borama. One of the teachers at Borama soon founded a school in Djibouti, and, with a bit more difficulty, another was established in Hargeisa.
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