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Hawaiʻi Pidgin Sign Language, also known as (Old) Hawaiʻi Sign Language (HSL) or Pidgin Sign, is a sign language used in Hawaiʻi. Although historical records document its presence on the islands since the 1820s, it was not described by linguists until 2013. Now largely supplanted by American Sign Language (ASL), it is almost extinct and is used only by a few elderly people, who are bilingual in ASL. Although previously believed to be related to ASL, the two languages are in fact unrelated. The term pidgin in some names used for HSL is due to its association with the spoken language Hawaiʻi Pidgin; HSL is not itself a pidgin, nor even related to Hawaiʻi Pidgin. For this reason, linguists who have begun to document the language prefer the name Hawaiʻi Sign Language. {{#invoke: Navbox | navbox }}
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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is hps.

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