Moroccan Sign Language
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Moroccan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Morocco, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moroccan Sign Language canonical | 2 |
| Langue des signes marocaine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478092 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moroccan Sign Language Context triple: [French Sign Language family, hasMember, Moroccan Sign Language]
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A.
Algerian Sign Language
Algerian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Algeria, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
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B.
Tunisian Sign Language
Tunisian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Tunisia, historically derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
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C.
Malian Sign Language
Malian Sign Language is a sign language used by the Deaf community in Mali, belonging to the broader French Sign Language family.
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D.
Senegalese Sign Language
Senegalese Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Senegal, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
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E.
Madagascar Sign Language
Madagascar Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Madagascar, historically influenced by French Sign Language.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moroccan Sign Language Target entity description: Moroccan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Morocco, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
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A.
Algerian Sign Language
Algerian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Algeria, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
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B.
Tunisian Sign Language
Tunisian Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Tunisia, historically derived from and influenced by the French Sign Language family.
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C.
Malian Sign Language
Malian Sign Language is a sign language used by the Deaf community in Mali, belonging to the broader French Sign Language family.
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D.
Senegalese Sign Language
Senegalese Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Senegal, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
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E.
Madagascar Sign Language
Madagascar Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in Madagascar, historically influenced by French Sign Language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural language
ⓘ
sign language ⓘ |
| countryUsedIn | Morocco ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| hasAcquisition |
also learned by hearing family members of Deaf Moroccans
ⓘ
primarily learned natively by Deaf children in Morocco ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
LSM
ⓘ
Langue des signes marocaine ⓘ
linked to:
Moroccan Sign Language
|
| hasCommunitySize | tens of thousands of users (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasContactWith | other sign languages used in North Africa ⓘ |
| hasLexicalSimilarityWith | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticType | subject–object–verb dominant word order (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasModality | manual and non-manual articulators ⓘ |
| hasPhonology |
handshape-based phonology
ⓘ
location-based phonology ⓘ movement-based phonology ⓘ non-manual markers ⓘ orientation-based phonology ⓘ |
| hasResearchStatus | under-documented compared to major sign languages ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature |
influence from French through education history
ⓘ
influence from spoken Moroccan Arabic through mouthing and loan signs ⓘ regional variation within Morocco ⓘ |
| hasStatus | minority language in Morocco ⓘ |
| hasUserCommunity | Moroccan Deaf community ⓘ |
| influencedBy | French Sign Language ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | xms ⓘ |
| languageFamily | French Sign Language family ⓘ |
| languageModality | visual-gestural ⓘ |
| notSameAs |
American Sign Language
ⓘ
Arabic Sign Language ⓘ
linked to:
Arabic Sign Language (pan-Arab varieties)
International Sign ⓘ |
| primaryUsers | Deaf community in Morocco ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | language of the Deaf community in Morocco ⓘ |
| regionUsedIn | North Africa ⓘ |
| usedBy | Deaf people in Morocco ⓘ |
| usedFor |
community and cultural activities of Deaf Moroccans
ⓘ
education of Deaf children in Morocco ⓘ informal communication among Deaf Moroccans ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Casablanca
ⓘ
Deaf associations in Morocco ⓘ Deaf schools in Morocco ⓘ Fes ⓘ Marrakesh ⓘ Rabat ⓘ interpreting services in Morocco ⓘ urban areas of Morocco ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no widely used standardized written form ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Moroccan Sign Language Description of subject: Moroccan Sign Language is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in Morocco, historically derived from and influenced by French Sign Language.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Moroccan Sign Language