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
Held at August 4–5, 2012, Chennai, India

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