Jumla Sign Language
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Jumla Sign Language is an indigenous sign language
of the town of Jumla
in western Nepal
. Ethnologue reports that there is a Nepalese Sign Language
school in Jumla, and that the students come from a 1–2-day walk away and do not speak Jumla Sign Language.
Sign language
A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's...
of the town of Jumla
Jumla (town)
Jumla is the capital of the Jumla District in the Karnali Zone of Nepal, a landlocked country of Southeast Asia. The town is located at an altitude of 2514 metres .-Geography:...
in western Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
. Ethnologue reports that there is a Nepalese Sign Language
Nepalese Sign Language
-Classification:Wittmann posits that ESL is a language isolate , though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely Indo-Pakistani Sign Language or the systems that underlay it....
school in Jumla, and that the students come from a 1–2-day walk away and do not speak Jumla Sign Language.