Berbey Sign Language is a
family sign language of the village of
Berbey in the
Hombori
Hombori is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Douentza in the Mopti Region of Mali. The commune contains 25 villages and in the 2009 census had a population of 23,099. The town lies just to the north of the Hombori Tondo mesa on the ...
region of Mali. The local oral language is
Humburi Senni
Humburi Senni, or Central Songhay, is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in the Hombori region, straddling the Burkina–Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤠𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤠...
. The language is currently spoken by two brothers (one of whom is deaf) and their families, including four deaf children. In the brothers' father's generation, all signers were deaf.
[Nargess Asghari (2019]
Iconicity in the Semantic Domain of Animals in the Emerging Family Sign Language of Berbey (Mali)
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See also
*Douentza Sign Language
Douentza Sign Language, or Dogon Sign Language is a community sign language spoken in Douentza and neighboring communities in the Dogon country in Mali. It is unknown how similar it may be to the nearby village sign language, Tebul Sign Language, ...
References
Village sign languages
Sign languages of Mali
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