Back زبان اشاره کنیایی Persian Langue des signes kényane French Harshen kuramen Kenyan Hausa Kenyan Sign Bhasa HIF Kenyan Sign Language IG Lingua dei segni keniota Italian Lenga dij segn kenian-a PMS Língua gestual queniana Portuguese Lingua dî Signa Kenyana SCN
| Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Kenya, Somalia |
Native speakers | unknown; 300,000–600,000 deaf (2007, 2011)[1] |
Unknown. May have connections to British Sign Language and American Sign Language; some signs from French (Belgian) Sign Language | |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xki |
| Glottolog | keny1241 |
Kenyan Sign Language (English: KSL, Swahili: LAK) is a sign language is used by the deaf community in Kenya and Somalia. It is used by over half of Kenya's estimated 600,000 deaf population. There are some dialect differences between Kisumu (western Kenya), Mombasa (eastern Kenya) and Somalia. (See Somali Sign Language.)
- ^ Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
