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Koniya Sign ( Japanese: 古仁屋手話, romanized: Koniya Shuwa), or Amami Oshima Sign (AOSL; 奄美大島手話, Amamioshima Shuwa) is a village sign language, or group of languages, on Amami Ōshima, the largest island in the Amami Islands of Japan. In the region of Koniya [ ja] on the island, there exist a high incidence of congenital deafness, which is dominant and tends to run in a few families; moreover, the difficulty of the terrain has kept these families largely separated, so that there is extreme lexical geographical diversity across the island, and AOSL is therefore perhaps not a single language.

See also

• Ted Supalla
• Japanese Sign Language
• Miyakubo Sign Language

Bibliography

• Osugi, Yutaka; Supalla, Ted; Webb, Rebecca (1999). "The use of word elicitation to identify distinctive gestural systems on Amami Island". Sign Language & Linguistics. 2 (1): 87–112. doi: 10.1075/sll.2.1.12osu.