Concept information
Preferred term
hpsHawaii Pidgin Sign Language
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language is a sign language used in Hawaii. Now largely supplanted by American Sign Language, it is almost extinct and is used only by a few elderly people, who are bilingual in ASL. The language is named for the Hawaii Pidgin spoken language and is not itself a pidgin.
Entry terms
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
ISO 639-3 code
- hps
Notation
- hps
In other languages
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Portuguese
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hps
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