OLAC resources in and about the Jamaican Sign Language

ISO 639-3: jls

The combined catalog of all OLAC participants contains the following resources that are relevant to this language:

• Primary texts
• Lexical resources
• Language descriptions
• Other resources about the language

Other known names and dialect names: JSL

Use faceted search to explore resources for Jamaican Sign Language.

Primary texts

1. Jamaican Sign Language Variety Text 01. Parks, Elizabeth (researcher); Parks, Jason (researcher); Epley, Christina (researcher). 2009. SIL International. oai:sil.org:47321
2. Jamaican Sign Language Variety Text 06. Parks, Elizabeth (researcher); Parks, Jason (researcher); Epley, Christina (researcher). 2009. SIL International. oai:sil.org:47337
3. Jamaican Sign Language Variety Text 05. Parks, Elizabeth (researcher); Parks, Jason (researcher); Epley, Christina (researcher). 2009. SIL International. oai:sil.org:47339

Lexical resources

1. Jamaican Sign Language Variety Wordlist 08. Parks, Elizabeth (researcher). 2009. SIL International. oai:sil.org:47316

Language descriptions

1. ONLINEGlottolog 5.0 Resources for Jamaican Sign Language. n.a. 2024. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:jama1263

Other resources about the language

1. ONLINEJamaican Sign Language: a language of Jamaica. n.a. 2018. SIL International. oai:ethnologue.com:jls
2. ONLINEA Sociolinguistic Profile of the Jamaican Deaf Community. Parks, Elizabeth; Parks, Jason; Epley, Christina. 2011. SIL International. oai:sil.org:41624
3. ONLINESign Language Use in the Jamaican and Dominican Republic Deaf Communities. Parks, Elizabeth; Parks, Jason; Williams, Holly. 2011. SIL International. oai:sil.org:42535
4. ONLINEInvestigating sign language variation through intelligibility testing: The recorded text test retelling method. Parks, Elizabeth; Parks, Jason. 2010. SIL International. oai:sil.org:42536
5. Jamaican Sign Language Variety Recorded Text Test (USA Text 01) Response 01. Parks, Elizabeth (researcher); Parks, Jason (researcher); Epley, Christina (researcher). 2009. SIL International. oai:sil.org:47306
6. Jamaican Sign Language Variety Recorded Text Test (USA Text 01) Response 05. Parks, Elizabeth (researcher); Parks, Jason (researcher); Epley, Christina (researcher). 2009. SIL International. oai:sil.org:47317
7. Jamaican Sign Language Variety Recorded Text Test (USA Text 01) Response 04. Parks, Elizabeth (researcher); Parks, Jason (researcher). 2009. SIL International. oai:sil.org:47332

Other known names and dialect names: JSL

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