Kurdish Sign Language
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kurdish-sign-language-310-7539882
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Kurdish Sign Language
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Kurdish Sign Language is the deaf sign language of the Kurds of Kurdistan Region, Iraq. There are three dialects, associated with the three Kurdish schools for the deaf in Sulaymaniyah, Erbil and Duhok. It is unintelligible with Iraqi Sign Language. ZHK may have originated with the establishment of the first Kurdish school for the deaf in Sulaymaniyah in 1982. The first teachers at that school apparently did not know Iraqi Sign Language, so it would seem that ZHK does not descend from ISL. It's
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Deaf sign language of the Kurds of Iraq
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_Sign_Language
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2022-12-19T20:24:05Z
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