Arab sign-language family
| Arab sign language | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Mideast, North Africa |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's sign language families |
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| Glottolog | arab1398 |
The Arab sign-language family is a family of sign languages spread across the Arab Middle East. Its extent is not yet known, because only some of the sign languages in the region have been compared.
A language planning project for a single Arabic Sign Language is being conducted by the Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs (CAMSA), with much of the vocabulary voted on by regional Deaf associations. However, so far only a dictionary has been compiled; grammar has not been addressed, so the result cannot be considered a language.