Adamorobe Sign Language

Demographics: 41 (Kusters 2012). Many of the approximately 3,500 hearing people in Adamorobe village also use AdaSL, to varying degrees of proficiency (Kusters 2012).

Language Use: All ages, deaf and many hearing. Deaf children also learn Ghanaian Sign Language [gse] (unrelated to AdaSL) in a deaf boarding school, but most older deaf and the hearing population know only AdaSL (Nyst 2007).

Nation of Origin: Ghana

Other Comments: In past years, incidence of deafness was as high as 11% in 1961, but it has dropped drastically, to about 1.1% in 2012, due to a local law enacted in 1975 forbidding deaf people to marry each other (Kusters 2012).