Sign Language · West Africa

Guinean Sign Language

Not endangered

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Guinean Sign Language. What it sounds like, how it works, and what it carries are all undocumented.

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FamilySign Language
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3gus
Glottocodeguin1250

Spoken in Guinea

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Sign Language's family tree with Guinean Sign Language.

  1. American Sign Language

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  2. Burkina Faso Sign Language

    Phonology, text or dictionary

  3. Chadian Sign Language

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  4. Ethiopian Sign Language

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  5. Gambian Sign Language

    Phonology, text or dictionary

  6. Ghanaian Sign Language

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  7. Moroccan Sign Language

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  8. Nigerian Sign Language

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

Reference data for Guinean Sign Language from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)