Nepali Sign Language
Nepalese Sign Language or Nepali Sign Language is the main sign language of Nepal. It is a partially standardized language based informally on the variety used in Kathmandu, with some input from varieties from Pokhara and elsewhere. As an indigenous sign language, it is not related to oral Nepali. The Nepali Constitution of 2015 specifically mentions the right to have education in Sign Language for the deaf. Likewise, the newly passed Disability Rights Act of 2072 BS (2017 CE) defined language to include "spoken and sign languages and other forms of speechless language." in practice it is recognized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, and is used (albeit in a somewhat pidginized form) in all schools for the deaf. In addition, there is legisl
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- enNepalese Sign Language or Nepali Sign Language is the main sign language of Nepal. It is a partially standardized language based informally on the variety used in Kathmandu, with some input from varieties from Pokhara and elsewhere. As an indigenous sign language, it is not related to oral Nepali. The Nepali Constitution of 2015 specifically mentions the right to have education in Sign Language for the deaf. Likewise, the newly passed Disability Rights Act of 2072 BS (2017 CE) defined language to include "spoken and sign languages and other forms of speechless language." in practice it is recognized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, and is used (albeit in a somewhat pidginized form) in all schools for the deaf. In addition, there is legisl
- Date
- 2014
- Family
- Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
- Language isolate
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- enNepalese Sign Language
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- enNepalese Sign Language or Nepali Sign Language is the main sign language of Nepal. It is a partially standardized language based informally on the variety used in Kathmandu, with some input from varieties from Pokhara and elsewhere. As an indigenous sign language, it is not related to oral Nepali. The Nepali Constitution of 2015 specifically mentions the right to have education in Sign Language for the deaf. Likewise, the newly passed Disability Rights Act of 2072 BS (2017 CE) defined language to include "spoken and sign languages and other forms of speechless language." in practice it is recognized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, and is used (albeit in a somewhat pidginized form) in all schools for the deaf. In addition, there is legislation underway in Nepal which, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) which Nepal has ratified, should give Nepalese Sign Language equal status with the oral languages of the country.
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- Language
- Iso
- ennsp
- Iso6393Code
- nsp
- Is primary topic of
- Nepali Sign Language
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- enNepali Sign Language
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- www.sdr.org/
- www.deafway.org.uk/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=view&id=523&Itemid=474
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- Adamorobe Sign Language
- Agent (grammar)
- Agreement (grammar)
- American manual alphabet
- American Sign Language
- Argument (linguistics)
- Category:Languages of Nepal
- Category:Sign language isolates
- Category:Sign languages of Nepal
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Classifier predicates
- Code switching
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Derivational morphology
- Devanagari
- Ergative-accusative
- Expression (sign language)
- Fingerspelling
- Fronted (phonetics)
- Gallaudet University
- Ghandruk Sign Language
- Grammatical person
- Handling classifier
- Handshape
- Homesign
- Incorporation (linguistics)
- Indexicality
- Indirect object
- Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
- Inflected
- Inflectional morphology
- Initialized sign
- International Sign
- Intransitive verb
- Jhankot Sign Language
- Jumla Sign Language
- Kata Kolok
- Kathmandu
- Kathmandu Association of the Deaf
- Language isolate
- Language standardization
- Location (sign language)
- Manually coded language
- Manual sign
- Marked
- Maunabudhuk-Bodhe Sign Language
- Minimal pair
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Nepal)
- Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (Nepal)
- Morphology (linguistics)
- Movement (sign language)
- National sign language
- Nepal
- Nepali (language)
- Nepali language
- Nepali manual alphabet
- Nonmanual feature
- Number (grammar)
- Object (grammar)
- Orientation (sign language)
- Parameter
- Patient (grammar)
- Peace Corps
- Phonology
- Pokhara
- Prime actant
- Semantic phonology
- Semiotic
- Sign
- Signed Nepali
- Sign language
- Simultaneous Communication
- Spoken language
- Sprachbund
- Subject (grammar)
- Subject–object–verb
- Topicalization
- Total Communication
- Trans-cultural diffusion
- Transitive verb
- Unmarked
- Variation (linguistics)
- Vikram Samvat
- Village sign language
- William Stokoe
- Name
- enNepalese Sign Language
- Name
- enNepalese Sign Language
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- ene18
- SameAs
- 3d7hg
- Langue des signes népalaise
- Lenga dij segn nepalèisa
- Lingua dei segni nepalese
- Língua de Sinais do Nepal
- m.02hwwxz
- Nepali Sign Language
- Q3915492
- زبان اشاره نپالی
- नेपाली साङ्केतिक भाषा
- Spoken in
- Nepal
- States
- Nepal
- Subject
- Category:Languages of Nepal
- Category:Sign language isolates
- Category:Sign languages of Nepal
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- Nepali Sign Language?oldid=1110835709&ns=0
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