Solomon Islands Sign Language

Solomon Islands Sign Language is the local deaf sign language of the Solomon Islands. There are significant similarities between the sign of the main islands of Guadalcanal and Malaita, and presumably elsewhere. The capital Honiara, where deaf people from all nine provinces have gathered, has the most developed Deaf community, and there is a nearby Deaf village at Aruliho. SISL is all domains of life, with admixture of Signed English and Auslan signs.[2]

Solomon Islands Sign Language
SISL
Native toSolomon Islands
Native speakers
3,000 (2021)[1]
indigenous– Auslan creole? creole of local regional languages?
Language codes
ISO 639-3szs
Glottologsolo1262  Solomon Islands Sign Language

There is a relatively high incidence of deafness in the Solomon Islands due to poverty-related diseases such malaria, meningitis, rubella, and otitis media. Attitude towards SISL is very positive, and the community worries that Auslan, which is taught at school, does not reflect their cultural and language needs. This has been confirmed by a pilot linguistic investigation.[2]

References
  1. Solomon Islands Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. ISO 639-3 Registration Authority Request for New Language Code Element in ISO 639-3
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