Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
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Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
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Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) is a village sign language used by about 150 deaf and many hearing members of the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in the Negev desert of southern Israel. As deafness is so frequent and deaf and hearing people share a language, deaf people are not stigmatised in this community and marriage between deaf and hearing people is common. ABSL grammar developed quickly, with the signing of each generation becoming more complex than the last. Even though no evidence of phon
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Sign language local to Israel's al-Sayyid Bedouin village
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Sayyid_Bedouin_Sign_Language
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2023-08-01T00:48:36Z
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