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Kafr Qasem Sign Language
Village sign language of Israel

Kafr Qasem Sign Language is a village sign language in Israel.

The language is in the process of being documented, mainly at the University of Haifa. Kafr Qasem is characterized by a relatively high percentage of people with a hearing impairment, and apparently, their sign language developed spontaneously over the years, even if it was influenced by Israeli Sign Language and local sign languages from the region.

The beginning of the deaf community in Kafr Qasem began at the beginning of the 20th century, when a villager married a deaf woman from Mazraa. The couple had deaf children, who in turn married and had more deaf children. In 1951, there were 1800 residents in Kafr Qasem, 12 of whom were deaf. The need to communicate with them led to the development of a sign language shared by the locals – deaf and hearing.

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References

  1. Kastner, Itamar, Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler, and Svetlana Dachkovsky. 2014. The emergence of embedded structure: insights from Kafr Qasem Sign Language. Frontiers in Psychology Vol 5, article 525. Web access http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00525/full

  2. "המילון המקוונן לשפת סימנים כפר קאסם – Sign Language Research Lab". 16 January 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2024. https://signlab.haifa.ac.il/2013/10/15/kqsl-2/

  3. "סוד השפה הנעלמת של חרשי כפר קאסם". המקום הכי חם (in Hebrew). 7 February 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2024. https://www.ha-makom.co.il/article/noga-berger-sign-language-kfar-qasem/