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Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) is a village sign language used by about 150 deaf and many hearing members of the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in the Negev desert of southern Israel. As deafness is so frequent (4% of the population is deaf compared to 0.1% in the United States) and deaf and hearing people share a language deaf people are not stigmatised in this community and marriage between deaf and hearing people is common. There is also no Deaf culture or politics.

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