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UH team uncovers old Hawai’i Sign Language

1-Mar-2013 Linguistics Department

A research group based in the UH Mānoa Department of Linguistics has uncovered the existence of old Hawai’i Sign Language, a previously undocumented sign language used in the islands. For more information see the department’s press release and the official UH press release. For a visual demonstration of HSL, please see this video.

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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Department of Linguistics
1890 East-West Road, Moore 569
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

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