Qatari Unified Sign Language is a proposal by the Qatari Supreme Council for Family Affairs to unify the
deaf sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...
, or perhaps languages, of
Qatar
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it ...
. A dictionary has been published. The council's description suggests that sign language in Qatar may belong to the
Arab Sign Language family
The Arab sign-language family is a family of sign languages spread across the Arab Middle East. Its extent is not yet known, because only some of the sign languages in the region have been compared.
A language planning project for a single Arabi ...
.
Intelligent Informatics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics ISI'12
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References
Sign language isolates
Languages of Qatar
Arab sign languages
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