Everything about Nepali Sign Language
Deaf sign language of Nepal
Nepali Sign Language is the main sign language of Nepal. It is a partially standardized language based informally on the variety used in Kathmandu, with some input from varieties from Pokhara and elsewhere. As an indigenous sign language, it is not related to oral Nepali. The Nepali Constitution of 2015 specifically mentions the right to have education in Sign Language for the deaf. Likewise, the newly passed Disability Rights Act of 2072 BS defined language to include "spoken and sign languages and other forms of speechless language." in practice it is recognized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, and is used in all schools for the deaf. In addition, there is legislation underway in Nepal which, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) which Nepal has ratified, should give Nepali Sign Language equal status with the oral languages of the country. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Nepali Sign LanguageA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Gorkhas and GorkhalandThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Metasemiotic Regimentation in the Standardization of Nepali Sign LanguageCited 15 times
- Go sideways: Initialized signA closely related topic
- Go sideways: American manual alphabetA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Metasemiotic Regimentation in the Standardization of Nepali Sign Language
NSL23 dataset for alphabets of Nepali sign language
Sociolinguistics of Nepali sign language: Orientation and movement
Nepali Sign Language and Nepali: Social and Linguistic Dimensions of a Case of Inter-Modal Language Contact
Nepali Sign Language Characters Recognition: Dataset Development and Deep Learning Approaches
Nepali Sign Language and Deaf Education Pedagogy in Nepal: Issues and Way Forwards
Mapping Agreement onto Space: A Morphological Study of Nepali Sign Language (NSL) Verbs
The effect of linguistic and social factors on handshape choice in classifier verbs in Nepali Sign Language (NSL)
📚 Books worth reading
Gorkhas and Gorkhaland · 2013
A TOUR OF THE WORLDMalik Mansab Khan, Muhammad Rafique Abdul Aziz · 2025
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