South Africa has a brand new official language: signal language.
For greater than 4 million people who find themselves deaf or arduous of listening to, there are hopes this recognition will make providers extra accessible.
Signal language is the nation’s twelfth official language, alongside Zulu, English and others.
However many consider it’s going to take time earlier than new insurance policies will adequately profit the nation’s deaf neighborhood.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller stories from Johannesburg.
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