Concept information
Preferred term
tzaTanzanian Sign Language
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Seven or so Tanzanian Sign languages (Swahili Lugha ya Alama or Lugha ya Bubu) were developed independently among deaf students in separate Tanzanian schools for the Deaf starting in 1963, though use of several is forbidden by their schools. In 1984, a standardized Tanzanian Sign Language was proposed by the Tanzania Association for the Deaf, using common or similar signs where these exist in the schools which allowed research, but it has not been officially implemented, and there remains little influence between the languages.
Entry terms
- Tanzanian sign languages
ISO 639-3 code
- tza
Notation
- tza
In other languages
-
Portuguese
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tza
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