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Preferred term

hpsHawaii Pidgin Sign Language  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • 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.

Entry terms

  • Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language

ISO 639-3 code

  • hps

In other languages

  • Lenga dij segn Hawai'i pidgin

    Piedmontese

  • Língua de Sinais Havaiana

    Portuguese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hps

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