Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language

Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language

language
name=Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language
states=Hawaii
region=limited to the islands of Hawaii
signers=virtually extinct; a few elderly signers are bilingual with the dominant ASL
iso2=sgn-US-HI|iso3=hps
Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language is a sign language used in Hawaii. Now largely supplanted by American Sign Language, it is almost extinct and is used only by a few elderly people, who are bilingual in ASL. The language is named for the Hawaii Pidgin spoken language and is not itself a pidgin.


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