Somali Sign Language
In the 1980s a school was established in Wajir for Somali Kenyans. In 1997 a deaf man educated at Wajir started a school in Borama in Somaliland; one of the teachers at that school later established another in Djibouti. Although there are regional differences, all use KSL as the basis of the language of instruction.
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