The annual International Mother Language Day (IMLD) celebration this year has as a theme braille and sign languages used by blind and deaf people.
Does anyone know about braille usage for African languages? Does anyone know about indigenous African sign languages? There's a fairly well developed Hausa sign language, apparently: see the book Maganar hannu (Language of the Hands): A Descriptive Analysis of Hausa Sign Language (Constanze Schmaling, 1997). Are there other African sign languages elsewhere on the continent? Some more info on IMLD and links are appended. DZO International Mother Language Day 2005 [UNESCO>Education>IMLD] International Mother Language Day 2005 will be devoted to Braille and Sign languages. UNESCO encourages countries to focus their celebration activities to this theme. http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27387&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-279.html International Mother Language Day 21 February 2005 Proclaimed by UNESCO in November 1999, and observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. [Count Me In Calendar] http://www.countmeincalendar.info/countme/CMICampaigns.nsf/UNIDs/75E4A 9E1BD7A0F8485256D90003849D3 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/TpIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfricanLanguages/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
