Qahveh Khaneh Sign Language

Qahveh Khaneh Sign Language, literally Coffee House Sign Language, is a deaf sign language of a few elderly members of the deaf community in Tehran. It has been in use since 1900 or earlier. It is unknown if it is related to Iranian Sign Language; it is possible that it descends from an ancestral form of Iranian Sign Language, dating to before that language was standardized.

Qahveh Khaneh Sign Language
Native toIran
RegionTehran
Native speakers
(moribund)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologqahv1234
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