Also Known As:
ABSL
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
A trailer for the movie "Voices from El Sayed", showing examples of the language being used.
Endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
130?
Native Speakers Worldwide
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Wendy Sandler, Irit Meir, Carol Padden and Mark Aronoff. 2005. "The Emergence of Grammar: Systematic Structure in a New Language." In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102: 2661-2665. Online: http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/pdf/PNAS.pdf.
Bibliography of Locations:
Wendy Sandler, Irit Meir, Carol Padden and Mark Aronoff. 2005. "The Emergence of Grammar: Systematic Structure in a New Language." In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102: 2661-2665. Online: http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/pdf/PNAS.pdf.
Bibliography of Context:
Shifra Kisch. 2012. "Demarcating Generations of Signers in the Dynamic Sociolinguistic Landscape of a Shared Sign-language: the Case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin." In Sign Languages in Village Communities, edited by Ulrike Zeshan and Connie de Vos. de Gruyter.