Deaf stirrings in Surinam

In this chapter we discuss the Surinam Deaf community as a linguistic minority with a language of their own: an as yet unnamed sigh language. This language is sometimes called Surinam Sign Language bu could easily also be named Paramaribo Sign Lanaguage or even Kennedy School Sign Language. Ther ehas been no research on this sign variety, so its structure and possible varieties are unknown. Here, we will refer to this language as the local sign variety,