South African Sign Language
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| South African Sign Language SASL |
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| Signed in: | South Africa | |
| Total signers: | 12,100 (1989) | |
| Language family: | Related to British Sign Language, Irish Sign Language and Auslan; some signs from American Sign Language | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sgn-ZA | |
| ISO 639-3: | sfs
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| sign language — list of sign languages — legal recognition | ||
South African Sign Language (SASL) has been included in the South African Constitution and accepted as the official language of instruction in the education of Deaf learners.
SASL is an utterly distinct though incompletely emerged national standard language, but which also subsumes a cluster of semi-standardised dialects. The status of SA Sign Language makes South Africa one of the few countries to have legal recognition of sign language.
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