Kata Kolok (literally "deaf talk") is the name given to a sign language of a village in northern Bali, Indonesia, which has had an extraordinarily high rate of deafness for several generations. As has happened elsewhere in similar circumstances, deaf and hearing people in the village have developed a sign language for communication. Two sign language Intepreters working as a team for a school. ... Sign language is not universal. ... The legal recognition of sign languages is one of the major concerns of the international Deaf community. ... Two sign language Intepreters working as a team for a school. ... Bali is an Indonesian island located at , the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. ... The word deaf can have very different meanings depending on the background of the person speaking or the context in which the word is used. ... The term hearing or hearing person, from the perspective of mainstream English-language culture, refers to somone whose sense of hearing is at the medical norm. ...

Kata Kolok is unrelated to spoken Balinese, and lacks certain contact sign phenomena that often arise when a sign language and a spoken language are in close contact, such as fingerspelling and mouthing. It is also unrelated to other sign languages. It differs from other known sign languages in a number of respects: signers make extensive use of cardinal directions and real-world locations to organise the signing space, and they do not use a metaphorical “time line” for time reference. For subject-object marking, Kata Kolok uses strict word order instead of spatial agreement verbs. Balinese is the language spoken by people in the island of Bali, Indonesia. ... -1... A one hand alphabet in general use, as published in the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, 1886. ... In linguistics, verbal agreement is a morpho-syntactic construct in which properties of the subject and/or objects of a verb are indicated by the verb form. ...

Deaf people in the village express themselves using special cultural forms such as deaf dance and martial arts, and occupy special ritual and social roles, including digging graves and maintaining water pipes. Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ...

References

• Branson, Jan, Don Miller, I Gede Marsaja & I Wayan Negara (1996). Everyone Here Speaks Sign Langugae Too: A Deaf Village in Bali, Indonesia. In: Lucas, Ceil, ed. (1996): Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, 39-57. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.