Rennellese Sign Language
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| Rennellese Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Solomon Islands |
| Region | Rennell Island |
| Extinct | ca. 2000[1] |
none (home sign) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (rsi deprecated in 2017 due to spurious)[2] |
rsi.html | |
| Glottolog | renn1236 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Rennellese Sign Language is an extinct form of home sign documented from Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands in 1974.[3] It was developed about 1915 by a deaf person named Kagobai and used by his hearing family and friends, but apparently died with him; he was the only deaf person on the island, and there never was an established, self-replicating community of signers. Accordingly, in January 2017 its ISO 639-3 code [rsi] was retired.[4] Kuschel,[3] the only source of information about this communication system, cites no evidence to suggest that there was any contact with any sign language.
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