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- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language abstract "(Jamaican) Country Sign Language, also Konchri Sain (KS), is an indigenous village sign language of Jamaica. It is used by a small number of Deaf and hearing Jamaicans, spread over several communities in the rural south-western parish of St. Elizabeth.The introduction of formal education for the St. Elizabeth deaf in 1975 by American Mennonite missionaries introduced two additional signed systems which have negatively affected KS, Signed English and American Sign Language. School officials strongly discouraged the use of the language inside and outside the classroom, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of fluent KS signers and a dramatic decline in the language's prestige. Thus, currently, KS is used primarily by elderly monolingual Deaf community members, while other community members use Jamaican Sign Language, a dialect of American Sign Language.A recent sociolinguistic survey reports that there are, currently, forty deaf adults KS signers on the island. The language will become extinct in the next twenty to thirty years, if deliberate effort is not taken to save it by means of an effective language planning strategy. Already, the University of the West Indies in conjunction with the University of Central London has begun working on a language documentation project for the language.".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language iso6393Code "jcs".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language spokenIn Jamaica.
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- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink sign-languages.htm.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink country-sign.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink silesr2011-026.pdf.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink 12j.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink jcs.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink ldlt_31.pdf.
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- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageID "35661692".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageLength "4379".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageOutDegree "15".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageRevisionID "705323154".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink American_Sign_Language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Endangered_language_isolates.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sign_language_isolates.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Village_sign_languages.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Language_documentation.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Language_isolate.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Manually_coded_English.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Central_London.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink University_of_the_West_Indies.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Varieties_of_American_Sign_Language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Village_sign_language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Jamaican Country Sign Language".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language agency "Not Regulated".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language altname "Country Sign".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language date "2009".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language family Language_isolate.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language familycolor "Sign".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language glotto "jama1256".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language glottorefname "Jamaican Country Sign Language".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language iso "jcs".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language name "Konchri Sain Language".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language speakers "40".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language states "Jamaica".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Sign_language_navigation.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language subject Category:Endangered_language_isolates.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language subject Category:Languages_of_Jamaica.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language subject Category:Sign_language_isolates.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language subject Category:Village_sign_languages.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language hypernym Language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Isolate.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Redirect.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Thing.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Q315.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language type Q34770.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language comment "(Jamaican) Country Sign Language, also Konchri Sain (KS), is an indigenous village sign language of Jamaica. It is used by a small number of Deaf and hearing Jamaicans, spread over several communities in the rural south-western parish of St. Elizabeth.The introduction of formal education for the St. Elizabeth deaf in 1975 by American Mennonite missionaries introduced two additional signed systems which have negatively affected KS, Signed English and American Sign Language.".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language label "Jamaican Country Sign Language".
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language sameAs Q6127418.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language sameAs Langue_des_signes_jamaïcaine_rurale.
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- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language sameAs Q6127418.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language wasDerivedFrom Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language?oldid=705323154.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language isPrimaryTopicOf Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language.
- Jamaican_Country_Sign_Language name "Konchri Sain Language".