German Sign Language family

The German Sign Language family is a small language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language.[1] The latter also had influence from Austrian Sign Language, which is unrelated, and the parentage is not entirely clear.

German Sign Language
Geographic
distribution
Europe
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's sign language families
Subdivisions
Glottologdgsi1234

See also

References

  1. Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.
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