Shanine Sign Language
Accents
Mainlanders, tourists, and fresh transplants to the Shanin Islands are noted by locals to have extremely heavy accents, generally influenced by inexperience with sign languages as a whole. Such are typically marked by signing quite slowly and so called 'stutters' in their signs, where in the speaker will often pause, stop, and readjust their positioning in harsh movements rather than fluid ones. Native and long time speakers, however known for signing extremely quickly and in fluid motions, do often have accents of their own, generally by locality and which island they live on. Big Island speakers will be more accented in fingerspelling, known to rotate their palms to face their chest when spelling out vowel sounds or letters, flipping their hands fluidly between each vowels and consonants. This particular accented form of the sign language is not seen on other islands, where instead, most will fingerspell with their other hand when switching between words of importance in a sentence.
Root Languages
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