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Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) is a visual gestural language used by members of thedeaf community in Kenya. Kiswahili on the other hand is a Bantu language that isused as the national language of Kenya. The two are world's apart, one being aspoken language and the other a signed language and thus their “… basic structuralunits are of necessity fundamentally very different…” (Valli and Lucas: 1996).However, preliminary investigations have revealed that sometimes Kenyan signersuse KSL signs while mouthing in Kiswahili. However, this does not necessarily puta case for the existence of a Kiswahili sign language since KSL is a natural languagewith its own autonomous grammar distinct from that of any spoken language.In this paper, we shall argue that the Kiswahili mouthed KSL signs are an outcomeof contact between KSL – Kiswahili bilinguals and their hearing Kiswahili bilingualcounterparts. Following Valli and Lucas (1996). We will further argue that there areno contact signs in a situation where a sign language is in contact with a spokenlanguage this being due to the fact that spoken languages do not have signed formsand thus no new signs are formed due to this contact. The signing in a KSL – Kiswahilicontact results into a phenomenon called contact signing. The paper further arguesthat as a result of interaction between KSL and Kiswahili, KSL users sometimes codeswitch/code mix in a contact situation that involves hearing Kiswahili users andsurprisingly in some deaf – deaf contact situations. This interaction has led to whatDavis (in Valli and Lucas op cit) call “unique phenomenon” that manifests itself in –mouthing, finger spelling, code switching/mixing and contact signing. Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa Vol. 1 (2) 2009: pp. 160-174

Structural borrowing: The case of Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) and Kiswahili contact signing