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
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2014
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Indo-Pakistani 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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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
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Lingua dei segni nepalese
Língua de Sinais do Nepal
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Nepali Sign Language
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زبان اشاره نپالی
नेपाली साङ्केतिक भाषा
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Nepal
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Nepal
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Category:Sign language isolates
Category:Sign languages of Nepal
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