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| Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language | ||
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| Signed in: | Hawaii | |
| Region: | limited to the islands of Hawaii | |
| Total signers: | virtually extinct; a few elderly signers are bilingual with the dominant ASL | |
| Language family: | Unknown | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | None | |
| ISO 639-2: | sgn-US-HI | |
| ISO 639-3: | hps
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Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language is a sign language used in Hawaii. Now largely supplanted by American Sign Language, it is almost extinct and is used only by a few elderly people, who are bilingual in ASL. The language is named for the Hawaii Pidgin spoken language and is not itself a pidgin.
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