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Somali Sign Language

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Somali Sign Language is used by the deaf communities of Somalia and Djibouti and descends from Kenyan Sign Language, brought back by graduates of a Wajir, Kenya deaf school founded in the 1980s by Annalena Tonelli, three of whom founded the Annalena School for the Deaf in Borama, Somalia in 1997. Further schools later opened in Djibouti and Hargeisa, and Glottolog classifies the language together with Kenyan Sign Language as Kenya-Somali Sign Language.

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