Hawai’i Pidgin Sign Language
A language of United States
| Population | A few users from about 6,000 profoundly deaf people in Hawaii (1987 Honolulu Star-Bulletin), 72,000 deaf or hard-of-hearing people in Hawaii (1998 Honolulu Advertiser). |
| Region | Hawaiian Islands. |
| Alternate names | Pidgin Sign Language |
| Classification | Deaf sign language |
| Language use | 9,600 deaf in Hawaii now use American Sign Language [ase] with a few local signs for place names and cultural items (1998 Honolulu Advertiser). Older adults. American Sign Language is also used. |
| Comments | Not a pidgin sign language in the regular sense of that term, but is the name given by others. Nearly extinct. |
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