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Direct linkOlivier Le Guen; Rossy Kinil Canche; Merli Collí Hau; Geli Collí Collí – Sign Language Studies, 2023
This article analyzes the construction of sign names in an emerging sign language from Mexico, the Yucatec Maya Sign Language (YMSL). Data comes from elicited interviews as well as natural interactions collected by the authors and signers from two different villages, Chicán and Nohkop. Despite YMSL being an isolate language, sign name construction…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Mayan Languages, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
Hou, Lynn – Sign Language Studies, 2018
San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language (CSL) is a group of six family-based signed language varieties in rural Mexico. This study analyzes the variation of iconic patterns of CSL signs with respect to three semantic categories, tools, food, and animals, using an Embodied Cognitive Phonology framework. Signs are organized around iconic prototypes,…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Rural Areas, Language Variation, Language Patterns
Safar, Josefina; Le Guen, Olivier; Collí, Geli Collí; Hau, Merli Collí – Sign Language Studies, 2018
In this article, we examine various strategies used to express cardinal numbers in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs) from three historically unrelated communities in Yucatán, Mexico: Chicán, Nohkop, and Cepeda Peraza. Our findings describe some numeral strategies, which remained unattested in previous accounts, and demonstrate that YMSL numerals…
Descriptors: Sign Language, American Indians, Rural Areas, Numbers
Tree, Erich Fox – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This article examines sign languages that belong to a complex of indigenous sign languages in Mesoamerica that K'iche'an Maya people of Guatemala refer to collectively as Meemul Tziij. It explains the relationship between the Meemul Tziij variety of the Yukatek Maya village of Chican (state of Yucatan, Mexico) and the hitherto undescribed Meemul…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Maya (People), Sign Language, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedJohnson, Robert E. – Sign Language Studies, 1991
Examines a traditional Mayan village in the Yucatan where deaf inhabitants use a sign language that is distinct from that used in other Mexican communities. Because the hearing villagers are able to communicate in this sign language, the deaf inhabitants are almost fully integrated into the social and economic life of the village. (22 references)…
Descriptors: Deafness, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Sign Language
Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1989
Briefly describes five dictionaries of the signed languages used in Australia, Mexico, Italy, New Zealand, and Thailand. (CB)
Descriptors: Deafness, Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, Language Research
