Hawaiʻi Sign Language - Wikipedia Hawaiʻi Sign Language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Hawai'i Sign Language) Jump to navigation Jump to search Hawaiʻi Sign Language Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi Native to United States Region Hawaii Native speakers 30; virtually extinct; a few elderly signers are bilingual with the dominant ASL [1] (2013)[2] Language family Isolate Language codes ISO 639-3 hps Glottolog hawa1235 ELP Hawai'i Sign Language[3] Hawaiʻi Sign Language (HSL), also known as Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Pidgin Sign Language (PSL),[4] is an indigenous sign language used in Hawaiʻi. Although historical records document its presence on the islands as early as the 1820s, it was not formally recognized until 2013 by linguists at the University of Hawaiʻi.[2] It is the first new language to be uncovered within the United States since the 1930s.[5] Linguistic experts believe HSL may be the last undiscovered language in the country.[6] Although previously believed to be related to American Sign Language (ASL),[7] the two languages are in fact unrelated.[8][9] The initial research team interviewed 19 Deaf people and two children of Deaf parents on four islands.[10] It was found that eighty percent of HSL vocabulary is different from American Sign Language, proving that HSL is an independent language.[11] Additionally, there is a HSL-ASL creole, Creole Hawaiʻi Sign Language (CHSL) which is used by approximately 40 individuals in the generations between those who signed HSL exclusively and those who sign ASL exclusively.[12] However, since the 1940s ASL has almost fully replaced the use of HSL on the islands of Hawaiʻi [5] and CHSL is likely to also be lost in the next 50 years.[12] Prior to the recognition of HSL as a distinct language in 2013, it was an undocumented language.[13] HSL is at risk of extinction due to its low number of signers and the adoption of ASL.[14] With fewer than 30 signers remaining worldwide, HSL is considered critically endangered.[15] Without documentation and revitalization efforts, such as the ongoing efforts initiated by Dr. James Woodward, Dr. Barbara Earth, and Linda Lambrecht,[9] this language may become dormant or extinct.[16] Contents 1 Discovery 2 History 3 HSL and ASL Comparisons 4 HSL Today 5 References 6 External links Discovery[edit] HSL was recognized by linguists on March 1, 2013 by a research group from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The research team found a letter from Reverend Hiram Bingham to Reverend Thomas H. Gallaudet from Feb. 23, 1821. The letter described several instances of Deaf natives communicating to Bingham in their own sign language.[8] At the time of discovery, the language was used by around 40 people, mostly over 80-years-old.[17] Bingham letter History[edit] HSL is not itself a pidgin,[18] but alternate names for the language are documented as Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language or Pidgin Sign Language.[16] This is due to an inaccurate historical association with the spoken language Hawaiʻi Pidgin. Linguists who have begun to document the language and community members prefer the name Hawaiʻi Sign Language,[9][8] and that is the name used for it in ISO 639-3 as of 2014.[19] Village sign use, by both d/Deaf and hearing, is attested from 1820. There's the possibility of influence from immigrant sign later that century, though HSL has little in common today with ASL or other signed and spoken languages it has come in contact with. The establishment of a school for the deaf in 1914 strengthened the use of sign, primarily HSL, among the students. A Deaf community hero, a Chinese-Hawai'ian Deaf man named Edwin Inn, taught HSL to other d/Deaf adults and also stood as president of a Deaf club.[14] However, the introduction of ASL in 1941 in place of purely oral instruction resulted in a shift from HSL. HSL and ASL Comparisons[edit] HSL shares few lexical and grammatical components with ASL.[9][8][2][20] While HSL follows subject, object, verb (SOV) typology, ASL follows subject, verb, object (SVO) typology.[21][22] HSL does not have verbal classifiers — these were previously thought to be universal in sign languages, and ASL makes extensive use of these.[23] HSL also has several entirely non-manual lexical items, including verbs and nouns, which are not typical in ASL.[11] Ongoing investigation of these languages suggest that they are not related.[9] HSL Today[edit] An estimated 15,857 of the total 833,610 residents of Hawai'i (about 1.9%) are audiologically deaf.[24] Among this population, ASL is now significantly more common than HSL. There are a handful of services available to help d/Deaf Hawai'ian residents learn ASL and also for those who wish to learn ASL to become interpreters, such as the Aloha State Association of the Deaf and the American Sign Language Interpreter Education Program.[25] Equivalent services for HSL are nearly non-existent, partially because some members of the Deaf community in Hawai'i have felt that it is not worth preservation.[20] Linda Lambrecht, Dr. James Woodward and Barbara Clark are continually working with a team to document and preserve the language.[13] Another research member, Dr. Samantha Rarrick, is part of the Sign Language Documentation Training Center at the University of Hawai'i. This group has two goals. Their first goal to teach graduate students and other linguists how to document HSL and other small sign languages used in Hawai'i.[26] Their second goal is to have 20-hours of translated-HSL on video.[13][27] As of Nov. 22, 2016, a dictionary and video archive of speakers have been created.[20] References[edit] ^ http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4275 ^ a b c "Linguists say Hawaii Sign Language found to be distinct language". Washington Post. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2013. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Hawai'i Sign Language. ^ "Hawaiʻi Sign Language". http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4275. Retrieved April 30, 2017. ^ a b "Linguists Discover Existence of Distinct Hawaiian Sign Language - The Rosetta Project". rosettaproject.org. Retrieved 2016-04-28. ^ Wilcox, D. (n.d.). Linguists rediscover Hawaiian Sign Language. Retrieved April 30, 2017 ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1] ^ a b c d Lambrecht, Linda; Earth, Barbara; Woodward, James (March 3, 2013), History and Documentation of Hawaiʻi Sign Language: First Report, University of Hawaiʻi: 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, hdl:10125/26133 ^ a b c d e Rarrick, Samantha; Labrecht, Linda (2016). "Hawaiʻi Sign Language". The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia: 781–785. ^ Lincoln, M. (2013, March 01). Nearly lost language discovered in Hawaiʻi. Retrieved April 30, 2017 ^ a b Clark, B., Lambrecht, L., Rarrick, S., Stabile, C., & Woodward, J. (2013). DOCUMENTATION OF HAWAIʻI SIGN LANGUAGE: AN OVERVIEW OF SOME RECENT MAJOR RESEARCH FINDINGS [Abstract]. University of Hawaiʻi, 1-2. Retrieved April 30, 2017 ^ a b Clark, Brenda; Samantha Rarrick; Bradley Rentz; Claire Stabile; James Woodward; Sarah Uno (2016). "Uncovering Creole Hawaiʻi Sign Language: Evidence from a case study". Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) 12. ^ a b c Perlin, Ross (August 10, 2016). "The Race to Save a Dying Language". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. ^ a b "Mānoa: Research team discovers existence of Hawaiʻi Sign Language | University of Hawaii News". manoa.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-28. ^ "Did you know Hawaiʻi Sign Language is critically endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2016-04-28. ^ a b "Hawaiʻi Sign Language - MultiTree". multitree.org. Retrieved 2016-04-28. ^ Mcavoy, A. (2013, March 01). Hawaii Sign Language found to be distinct language. Associated Press. Retrieved April 30, 2017 ^ Ethnologue ^ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: hps". Retrieved 2014-02-07. ^ a b c Tanigawa, N. (2016, NOV 22). Hawai'i Sign Language Still Whispers. Retrieved May 1, 2017 ^ "Hawaii Sign Language". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-02-09. ^ "American Sign Language". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-02-09. ^ Rarrick, Samantha (2015). "A Sketch of Handshape Morphology in Hawai'i Sign Language" (PDF). University of Hawai'i at Manoa Working Papers in Linguistics. 46 (6). ^ Smith, Sarah Hamrick, Laura Jacobi, Patrick Oberholtzer, Elizabeth Henry, Jamie. "LibGuides. Deaf Statistics. Deaf population of the U.S." libguides.gallaudet.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-28. ^ "Signs of Self". www.signsofself.org. Retrieved 2016-04-28. ^ Rarrick, S., & Wilson, B. (2015). Documenting Hawai'i's Sign Languages. Language Documentation & Conservation,10, 337-346. Retrieved April 30, 2017 ^ "Documentation of Hawaii Sign Language: Building the Foundation for Documentation, Conservation, and Revitalization of Endangered Pacific Island Sign Languages". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS University of London. Retrieved July 12, 2017. Hawai'i Sign Language. MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships Hawaii Links & Resources. Signs of Self: Independent Living Services for People who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Deaf-Blind External links[edit] Rarrick, Samantha & Brittany Wilson. 2015. Documenting Hawai'i's Sign Language. 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Miriwoong Worora Kinship Arab Sign Egyptian Kuwaiti Libyan Qatari Unified Yemeni Iraqi– Levantine Iraqi Levantine Arabic Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Syrian Possible Emirati Saudi Omani BANZSL Auslan Papua New Guinean BSL Northern Ireland Fijian MSL NZSL Sāmoan SASL Swedish EriSL Finland-Swedish Portuguese Teckenspråk Viittomakieli Francosign Proto-LSF Algerian DSGS Eesti viipekeel Irish Australian-Irish Libras Lithuanian LSC LSV LSCh LSF Romanian Amslanic American Black ASL Protactile Bolivian Burmese Cambodian Costa Rican Dominican Greek Cypriot Jamaican Malaysian Panamanian Philippine Puerto Rican Quebec Singapore BISINDO Jakarta Yogyakarta Francophone African Ethiopian Chadian Ghanaian Guinean LaSiMa Moroccan Nigerian Sierra Leonean Austro- Hungarian Czech Hungarian ÖGS Slovak Ukrainian (УЖМ/USL) Russian Bulgarian (БЖЕ) Georgian Latvian Mongolian Russian (РЖЯ) Yugoslav HZJ Kosovar Serbian Slovenian Yugoslav Old Belgian VGT LSFB Danish Malagasy Táknmál Tegnspråk Tegnsprog Teknmál 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Sign By region[a] Sign languages by region Africa Algeria Algerian Ghardaia Cameroon Maroua Ghana Adamorobe Nanabin Ivory Coast Bouakako (LaSiBo) Kenya Kenyan Mali Tebul Bamako (LaSiMa) Nigeria Bura Magannar Hannu Senegal Mbour Somalia & Djibouti Somali South Africa South African Tanzania Tanzanian Uganda Ugandan Zambia Zambian Asia Bengal Bengali Cambodia Cambodian China Chinese Hong Kong HKSL India Alipur Bengali Indo-Pakistani Naga Indonesia Indonesian Kata Kolok (Benkala, Balinese) Iran Persian Iraq Iraqi Kurdish Israel Al-Sayyid Bedouin Ghardaia Israeli Kafr Qasem Japan Amami Oshima Japanese Miyakubo Korea Korean Laos Laotian Malaysia Malaysian Penang Selangor Mongolia Mongolian Nepal Ghandruk Jhankot Jumla Nepalese Philippines Philippine Saudi Arabia Saudi Singapore Singapore Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Taiwan Taiwanese Tajikistan Russian Tibet Bökyi lagda Thailand Bangkok Chiangmai Thai Ban Khor (Pasa kidd) Vietnam Vietnamese Europe Armenia Armenian Austria Austrian Azerbaijan 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River Valley Sign Language Warluwara Linguistics Grammar (ASL) Bimodal bilingualism Cherology Handshape / Location / Orientation / Movement / Expression Mouthing Sign names Fingerspelling American British (two-handed) Catalan Chilean French Hungarian Irish Japanese Korean Polish Russian Serbo-Croatian Spanish Ukrainian Writing ASL-phabet Hamburg Notation System Stokoe notation SignWriting si5s ASLwrite () Language contact Contact sign Indian Signing System Initialized sign Manually coded English Manually coded language in South Africa Manually Coded Malay Mouthing Paget Gorman Sign System Signed Dutch Signed French Signed German Signed Italian Signed Japanese Signed Polish Signed Spanish Signing Exact English Tecknad svenska Bilingual–bicultural education Manually coded language Media Films (list) Television shows (list) Persons Jabbar Baghtcheban Jeanette Berglind Pär Aron Borg Thomas Braidwood Laurent Clerc Abbé de l'Épée Roger Fouts Valerie Sutton Thomas Gallaudet Abbe Sicard William Stokoe Pierre Pélissier Organisations Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada International Center on Deafness and the Arts Mimics and Gesture Theatre World Association of Sign Language Interpreters Miscellaneous Baby sign language CHCI chimpanzee center (Washoe, Loulis) Open Outcry Legal recognition U.S. Army hand and arm signals Monastic sign languages Tactile signing Tic-tac (betting) ^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. Conversely, ASL and BSL both originated in English-speaking countries but are not related to each other; ASL however is related to French Sign Language. ^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages. 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