WHAT IS PIDGIN SIGN LANGUAGE ?

Pidgin Sign Language

When deaf signers with some knowledge of spoken language structures and hearing people with some knowledge of sign language try to communicate, the result is often a form of Contact Signing or Pidgin Sign Language. Since this form of signing is influenced by both the primary sign language and the spoken language, which typically have very different grammars.

Many hearing people in India who communicate with deaf people regularly are convinced that they sign very well and that they are using Indian Sign Language when in fact they are using Pidgin Sign Language.

Numbers in Indian Sign Language