French Sign Language in Togo

Speakers

Type

Location

French Sign Language in Togo

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

French Sign Language in Togo

Size

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions

Asynchronicity

  • Pervasive uses of asynchronicity by all users in a wide range of domains
  • Frequent uses of asynchronicity by a majority of users in several contexts
  • Habitual uses of asynchronicity by a good number of users which may be limited to specific contexts
  • Occasional and unsystematic use of asynchronicity
  • Very limited use of asynchronicity by a few individuals only
  • Not used for purposes of asynchronicity

Standardization

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

6,595
57
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Age distribution of users

3,551
31
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Age distribution of users

1,345
12
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

No education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

96
Early childhood education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

2,794
Primary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

924
Lower secondary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

308
Higher secondary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

193
Tertiary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

RGPH4, 2010

568
Craft and related trades workers
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Services and sales workers
Source

RGPH4, 2010

21
Clerical support workers
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Technicians and associate professionals
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Professionals
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Managers
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Digital use

Less than 10% digital users of the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion