Plains Indian Sign Language
- Plains Indian Sign Language
language
name=Plains Indian Sign Language
states=USA and Canada
signers=Few
iso3=psd
Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL) is a sign language formerly used as an auxiliary interlanguage between Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States of America and Canada.
In 1885, it was estimated that there were over 110,000 “sign-talking Indians”, including Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapahoe.[Tomkins, William: "Indian sign language." [Republication of "Universal Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America" 5th ed. 1931] . New York : Dover Publications 1969. (p. 7)] By the 1960s, there remained a “very small percentage of this number”.]References
Further reading
* Newell, Leonard E. (1981). "A stratificational description of Plains Indian Sign Language." Forum Linguisticum 5: 189-212.
External links
* [http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_036000_signlanguage.htm "PISL"]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=psd Ethnologue report for language code:psd]
* [http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/native/sign/index.htm "Indian" Sign Language Dictionary]
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17451 "Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes," First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552]
* [http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tommyfoley A conference in PISL and a small video lexicon, both dating from the 1930s, on Youtube]
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