India
From AASL
| Name of the country/area | India |
|---|---|
| Formal name of the country/area | Republic of India |
| Country/area information | The World Factbook(CIA) |
| Wikipedia(English) |
Indigenous signs for "India"
Movies
Sign of country name "India" (Data offered by Deaf informants in India; movie made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)
Illustrations in the literature
"India" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 10.)
Spoken languages
Hindi
English
Assamese
Bengali
Bodo, Dogri
Gujarati
Kannada
Kashmiri
Konkani
Maithili
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Santhali
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
Sign languages
Extinct sign languages:
Population of Deaf/deaf people
The population of the signers of Indian Sign Language: 2,680,000 in India (2003).
Legal status of sign languages
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
All India Federation of the Deaf (WFD member, cited from WFD website)
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
Bangalore-Madras Sign Language
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan deSantis 1985. An introduction to the Bangalore variety of Indian Sign Language. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet Research Institute.
Bombay Sign Language
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan de Santis. 1986. An introduction to the Bombay variety of Indian Sign Language. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet Research Institute.
Calcutta Sign Language
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan de Santis. 1987. An introduction to the Calcutta variety of Indian Sign Language. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet Research Institute.
Delhi Sign Language
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan de Santis. 1980. An introduction to Indian Sign Language (focus on Delhi). College Park, Md.: Sign Language Research [also pub. New Delhi: All India Federation of the Deaf, 1980].
Bibliography
Zeshan, Ulrike. 2000. Sign language in Indo-Pakistan: a description of a signed language. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub.
Woodward, James. 1993. The relationship of sign language varieties in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. In: Sign language studies 78: 15-22.
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Kirk L. Wilson. 1978. Sign languages in India: regional variations within the deaf populations. In: Indian journal of applied linguistics. v.4 no.2.66-74.
Naga Sign Language
Hutton, John Henry. 1921. The Angami Nagas, with some notes on neighbouring tribes. London: MacMillan. 291-292.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Sign Languages in Asia: India (Data offered by Deaf informants in India; movies made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)
Notes
| Asia (general) | Asia (general) |
|---|---|
| East Asia | China | Japan | Mongolia | North Korea | South Korea |
| Southeast Asia | Brunei | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam |
| South Asia | Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka |
| West Asia | Afghanistan |
| Areas and others | Hong Kong | Macau | Taiwan |
