Hawaiʻi Sign Language
Historical records document its presence on the islands as early as the 1820s, but HSL was not formally recognized by linguists until 2013.The letter described several instances of deaf Kānaka Maoli communicating to Bingham in their own sign language.[22][23] HSL does not have verbal classifiers – these were previously thought to be universal in sign languages, and ASL makes extensive use of these.[26] Equivalent services for HSL are nearly non-existent, partially because some members of the Deaf community in Hawaiʻi have felt that it is not worth preservation.Their first goal is to teach graduate students and other linguists how to document HSL and other small sign languages used in Hawaiʻi.
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