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Providence Island Sign Language (also known as Providencia Sign Language) is a village sign language of the small island community of Providence Island in the Western Caribbean off the coast of Nicaragua but belonging to Colombia. The island is about 15 square miles (39 km2) and the total population is about 5000 of which an unusual proportion are deaf (5 in 1000).It is believed that the sign language emerged in the late 19th or early 20th century.