Ecuadorian Sign Language

Ecuadorian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Ecuador.

Ecuadorian Sign Language
Native toEcuador
Native speakers
unknown; 230,000 deaf (2011)[1]
Andean?
Language codes
ISO 639-3ecs
Glottologecua1243
ELPEcuadorian Sign Language[2]

Classification

Clark[3] notes that Peruvian, Bolivian, Ecuadorian and Colombian sign languages "have significant lexical similarities to each other" and "contain a certain degree of lexical influence from ASL" as well, at least going by the forms in national dictionaries. Chilean and Argentinian share these traits, though to a lesser extent.

References

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