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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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Kamei, Nobutaka. 2005. The Deaf in Africa (11) Multiple aspects of apartheid. In ''Sign Language Communication Studies'' (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 58(2005.12):46-53.
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Aarons, Debra and Louise Reynolds, 2003. South African Sign Language: Changing policies and practice. 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. 194-210.
Aarons, Debra and Louise Reynolds, 2003. South African Sign Language: Changing policies and practice. 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. 194-210.

Revision as of 23:14, 17 February 2010

Basic information of the country/area
Name of the country/area South Africa
Formal name of the country/area Republic of South Africa
Country/area information The World Factbook(CIA)
Wikipedia(English)


Contents

Indigenous signs for "South Africa"

Illustrations in the literature

"South Africa" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 102.)


Spoken languages

English

IsiZulu

IsiXhosa

Afrikaans

Sepedi

Setswana

Sesotho

Xitsonga

SiSwati

Tshivenda

IsiNdebele


Sign languages

South African Sign Language


Related sign languages:

British Sign Language

Irish Sign Language

American Sign Language


Population of Deaf/deaf people

12,100 deaf persons including 6,000 Black, 2,000 English white, 2,000 Afrikaans white, 1,200 Coloured, 900 Indian (VanCleve 1986).

Ethnologue, 16th Edition


Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Deaf Federation of South Africa (DEAFSA) (WFD member, cited from WFD website)

http://www.deafsa.co.za


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

Penn, Claire ed. 1992-1994. Dictionary of Southern African signs for communicating with the deaf. 1-5. Pretoria, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council.


Bibliography

Kamei, Nobutaka. 2005. The Deaf in Africa (11) Multiple aspects of apartheid. In Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 58(2005.12):46-53.

Aarons, Debra and Louise Reynolds, 2003. South African Sign Language: Changing policies and practice. 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. 194-210.

Aarons, Debra, and Philemon Akach. 2002. South African Sign Language: One language or many? In: Mesthrie, Rajend ed. Language in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Heap, Marion. 2001. An anthropological perspective of the Deaf people in Cape Town. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa: Department of Anthropology. Typescript

Aarons, Debra and Ruth Morgan. 1998. The structure of South African Sign Language after apartheid. Paper presented at the sixth conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, November, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Penn, Claire and Timothy Reagan. 1996. Language policy, South African Sign Language, and the Deaf: Social and educational implications. Typescript.

Reynolds, Louise. 1995. Philosophies and practices in deaf education in the Western Cape, South Africa, Signpost 8(2): 66-71.

Ogilvy-Foreman, Dale, Claire Penn, and Timothy Reagan. 1994. Selected syntactic features of South African Sign Language: A preliminary analysis. In: South African journal of linguistics 12(4): 118-123.

Penn, Claire and Timothy Reagan. 1994. The properties of South African Sign Language: Lexical diversity and syntactic unity. In: Sign language studies 85:317-326.

Penn, Claire and Timothy Reagan. 1994. The properties of South African Sign Language: Lexical diversity and syntactic unity. In: Sign language studies 84:319-327.


Penn, Claire. 1992. The sociolinguistics of South African sign language. In: Herbert, Robert K. ed. Language and society in Africa . Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 277-284.

Penn, Claire, Timothy Reagan and Dale Ogilvy. 1991. Deaf-hearing interchange in South Africa. In: Sign language studies 71:131-142.

Strong, Michael. 1988. A bilingual approach to the education of young deaf children: ASL and English. In: Strong, Michael ed. Language learning and deafness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 113-129.

Saleh, S. 1986. Signs used by pupils and teachers at the Lenasia School for the Deaf: a comparative study. Thesis. Johannesburg: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand. [Incluing information of South African Indian Sign Language]


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