Saudi Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia.
This sign language is different from the Unified Arabic Sign Language that is used by 18 Arab countries.
[2] There are 100,000 deaf people in Saudi Arabia.
[3] Wittmann (1991)[4] posits that SSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language.
^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family.