Adamorobe Sign Language
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title:
Adamorobe Sign Language
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Adamorobe Sign Language or AdaSL is a village sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana. It is used by about 30 deaf and 1370 hearing people (2003). The Adamorobe community is notable for its unusually high incidence of hereditary deafness. As of 2012, about 1.1% of the total population is deaf, but the percentage was as high as 11% in 1961 before the local chief instituted a policy prohibiting deaf people to marry other deaf. Deaf people are fully incorporated into the c
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Village sign language of Ghana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamorobe_Sign_Language
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2023-09-21T10:54:13Z
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