Hausa Sign Language
From AASL
| Language name | Hausa Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Region | Nigeria |
Language name
Hausa Sign Language
(Indigenous names) Maganar Hannu or Managar Bebaye
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Bibliography
Smith, Neil. 2008. Maganar Hannu. In : Smith, Neil ed. Language, Frogs and Savants: More Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics. Wiley interscience. 51-55.
Monaghan, Leila. 2003. A world's eye view: Deaf cultures in global perspective. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 1-24. [Including information of Africa (general), Asia (general), Oceania (general), Hausa Sign Language, Ban Khor Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Australasian Sign Language ]
Schmaling, Constanze. 2003. A for apple: The impact of western education and ASL on the Deaf community in Kano State, northern Nigeria. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 302-310. [Including information of Africa (general), Nigeria, Hausa Sign Language and Nigerian Sign Language ]
Schmaling, Constanze. 2001. ASL in Northern Nigeria: Will Hausa Sign Language survive? In: Dively, Valerie, Melanie Metzger, Sarah Taub and Anne Marie Baer eds. Signed languages: Discoveries from international research. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 180-193.
Schmaling, Constanze. 2000. Maganar hannu, language of the hands: a descriptive analysis of Hausa sign language. Hamburg: Signum-Verlag.
Schmaling, Constanze. 1998. ASL in northern Nigeria: Will Hausa Sign Language survive? Presentation at Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research
