Guatemalan Sign Language
[别称 Lensegua]语系：Sign Language
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近危
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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28,000-256,000
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73,000-640,000
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"A recent government-sponsored survey estimated a deaf population of 73,000 (Edith Paz 2006, personal communication), but other estimates reach up to 640,000.... Forty percent of all Guatemalans with a significant degree of hearing loss are believed to use a sign language, according to a source who previously worked with the national disability organization, CONADI. When applied to the figures above, this indicates that between 28,000 and 256,000 Guatemalans use sign language and have a deaf ethnolinguistic identity."
"...very few hearing Guatemalans use any sign language, including GSM."
- 使用领域
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- 使用者趋势
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- 传承情况
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- 更多关于活力的信息
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"...deaf and hearing Guatemalans have more places in which they can acquire GSM, including deaf schools, deaf clubs, churches, Christian ministries, hospitals, deaf family members, hearing parents, LENSEGUA dictionaries, and TV programs.... It is not used in government meetings, banks, or the market place, except by interpretation between it and Spanish. Hearing parents of deaf children are reticent to use sign language at home and may even strictly forbid it. Most deaf people are required to lip-read, speak, and write Spanish in order to communicate with their hearing family members. Because of this, most deaf people do not learn a sign language until they are in contact with the deaf community, anytime between 5 and 30 years of age."
- 使用者态度
- Positive
- 相关机构的支持
- 10 deaf schools. Dictionaries. Television program in Quetzaltenango airs a forty-five minute program every Tuesday.
- 该群体使用的其他语言
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American Sign Language
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Spanish
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English
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Mayan languages
- 语言环境评论
"Deaf and hearing people have acquired sign language through deaf members of the community, deaf schools and associations, hospitals and private organizations that hold classes, and the recently printed LENSEGUA dictionaries."
- 手写稿、文字系统和正字法
- None
- 正字法
"There is no established orthography for GSM and most deaf people desire their language development to take the form of video accessed through Television, DVD, and the Internet."
- 地点
- Guatemala
- 地点描述
Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango (Xela), Cobán, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, Mazatenango, Escuintla, Zacapa, throughout the country
- 其他评论
"The majority of deaf people are found in Guatemala City and Quetzaltenango (called Xela by locals), although other cities, including Cobán, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, Mazatenango, Escuintla, and Zacapa, are also hubs for the deaf community. Isolated deaf people live in the northern Petén and reportedly use home signs instead of a formalized sign language... Deaf people of Guatemala live scattered throughout the country with higher concentrations in large cities. They view themselves as one community, but specifically identify with deaf people in the city nearest them."