Eyasu Hailu Tamene, "The Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language: A Study of Language Use and Attitudes (Volume 23) "English | ISBN: 1944838066 | 2018 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million members of the Ethiopian Deaf community, but it remains an under-researched language. In this work, Eyasu Hailu Tamene presents a groundbreaking study of EthSL that touches on multiple aspects of Deaf people's lives in Ethiopia.