Enga Sign Language

Enga Sign Language
Enga Sign Language
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province
Ethnicity	Tato Enga
Language family	village sign language?
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	enga1253

Enga Sign Language is an apparent village sign language among the Tato Enga people in Enga province, Papua New Guinea. It was reported in 1980 in three articles by Adam Kendon, based on ethnographic films of three signers (one deaf, two hearing) in the upper valley of the Lagaip River, but with reports of wider use in the surrounding region.^[1]^[2]^[3] Its current status is unknown, as no more recent information is available.

References

^ Kendon, Adam (1980). "A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion, Part I: The formational properties of Enga signs". Semiotica. 31 (1/2): 1–34. doi:10.1515/semi.1980.31.1-2.1. S2CID 201699673.
^ Kendon, Adam (1980). "A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion, Part II: The semiotic functioning of Enga signs". Semiotica. 32 (1/2): 81–117.
^ Kendon, Adam (1980). "A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion, Part III: Aspects of utterance construction". Semiotica. 32 (3/4): 245–313.