Sierra Leonean Sign Language is a variety or descendent of American Sign Language (ASL) used in schools for the deaf in Sierra Leone or at least in the capital Freetown. As in much of West Africa the first schools for the deaf were founded by the American missionary Andrew Foster or his students.
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