Kuwaiti Sign Language is 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 ...
of
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
. It appears to 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 ...
(Hendriks 2008).
References
*Hendriks, Bernadet, 2008. ''Jordanian Sign Language: aspects of grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective'' (dissertatio
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Arab sign languages
Languages of Kuwait