Deaf community and State Language : This work was supported by Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFN) 0FR-22-254. The Georgian Sign language nominal morphology]

This work was supported by Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFN) 0FR-22-254. The Georgian Sign language nominal morphology]

Abstract

The deaf community living in Georgia unites about 2500 people. Deaf people living on the territory of Georgia are a linguistic minority. The language communication for the members of this community is Georgian Sign Language (GESL), which is an independent natural language and is not a copyable version of the Georgian spoken language. Unfortunately, the issues of deaf education need serious work, and here we have a big gap, which directly affects the personal life of members of this community (especially young people), their career and professional prospects. One of the big problems that the members of this Deaf community are very worried about is that a large part of the members of this community do not know well or very poorly know the state language  – Georgian spoken language. Due to lack of adequate knowledge of the Georgian language, deaf people avoid written communications even in social networks and prefer to communicate only with each other in GESL. The presented paper talks about the methods of learning the state language for the Deaf community members and the tasks of eliminating agrammatism.