Ghanaian Sign Language
From AASL
Language name | Ghanaian Sign Language |
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Region | Ghana |
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Ghanaian Sign Language
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Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Okyere, Alexander Daniel and Francis K. Boison et al eds. Ghanaian Sign Language". Ghana National Association of the Deaf. Accra-North, Ghana.
Bibliography
Annelies Kusters. 2011. Ghanaian signs are soft and Adamorobe signs are hard. :Language use and language attitudes in Adamorobe. Applied Sign Linguistics Symposium, Bristol, 2ndJuly 2011.
Kamei, Nobutaka. 2006. History of Deaf people and sign languages in Africa: Fieldwork in the "kingdom" derived from Andrew J. Foster. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten. [2007 JASID Award for Excellent Work by Young Researchers, Japan Society for International Development, November 2007]
Nakayama, Sinichiro. 2004. Make a Comparison of Word Order betweem Sign Language and Language for writing : From study about sign language used in Asia and Africa. In:Sign Language Communication Studies(Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 52(2004.06):22-26.[Including information of [ Ghana, Zambia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand ].
Seth, Ocloo. 1996. Sign language and the Deaf in Ghana. In : Akach, Philemon and Trier, Marianne eds. Seminars on Deaf Education (2-7 September 1996) and Sign Language (9-12 September 1996): Ghana - (mission) UNESCO document. 1997.
Amedofu, Geoffrey Kwabla. 1993. News from Ghana. In : Signpostspring 1993. 19-21.
Frishberg, Nancy. 1987. Sign languages : Ghanian. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York: McGraw-Hill. vol.3. 78-79.
Fishberg, Nancy. 1987. Ghanaian Sign Language. In: Van Cleve, John V. ed. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York: McGraw Hill. 778-779.