Sign Language · West Africa

Sierra Leone Sign Language

Not endangered

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Sierra Leone 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 639-3sgx
Glottocodesier1246

Spoken in Sierra Leone

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Closest relatives

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

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  8. Moroccan Sign Language

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

Reference data for Sierra Leone 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)