Yemeni Sign Language is the (or a)
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
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
. It belongs to the
Arab sign-language family (Hendriks 2008). It is not clear how close are the sign languages of the two former Yemeni states.
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 Yemen