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(Jamaican) Country Sign Language also Konchri Sain (KS) is an indigenous village sign language of Jamaica. It is used by a small number of Deaf and hearing Jamaicans spread over several communities in the rural south-western parish of St. Elizabeth.The introduction of formal education for the St. Elizabeth deaf in 1975 by American Mennonite missionaries introduced two additional signed systems which have negatively affected KS Signed English and American Sign Language.

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