Danish Sign Language family
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West Scandinavian Sign | |
Ethnicity | Diverse Deaf populations |
Geographic distribution | Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Madagascar |
Linguistic classification | French Sign
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Glottolog | west2993 (West Scandinavian Sign) |
The Danish Sign Language family comprises three languages: Danish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language (including Malagasy Sign Language) and Icelandic Sign Language. It itself is a sub-language family within the larger French Sign Language family.[1]
Wittmann (1991) places Danish Sign in the French Sign Language family, although being also influenced by local pidgin Scandinavian Sign, which also influenced Swedish sign.
Ethnologue reports that Danish Sign Language is largely mutually intelligible with Swedish Sign, though Wittmann places DSL in the French Sign Language family and Swedish Sign in the British Sign Language family.[2]
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References
- ^ Bergman, Brita; Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth (2010). "Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries". In Brentari, Diane (ed.). Sign Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 74–94. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511712203. ISBN 978-0521883702.
- ^ "Swedish Sign Language". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
External links
- Aldersson, Russell R. and Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis. 2007. A Lexical Comparison of Icelandic Sign Language and Danish Sign Language. Birkbeck Studies in Applied Linguistics Vol 2. A Lexical Comparison of Icelandic Sign Language and Danish Sign Language
- Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement" (PDF). Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée (in French). 10 (1): 215–288. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 March 2023.
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families[a]
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Australian Aboriginal (multiple families)[c] |
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Arab (Ishaaric) |
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BANZSL |
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Chinese Sign |
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Chilean-Paraguayan- Uruguayan Sign |
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Francosign |
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German Sign | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Japanese Sign | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kentish[c] |
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Mayan (Meemul Tziij) |
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Original Thai Sign | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plains Sign Language |
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Providencia– Cayman Sign | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Isolates |
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Other groupings |
languages
- Grammar (ASL)
- Bimodal bilingualism
- Phonology (ASL)
- Handshape / Location / Orientation / Movement / Expression
- Mouthing
- Nonmanual feature
- Sign names
contact
Signed Oral Languages | |
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Others |
- Films (list)
- Television shows (list)
- Baby sign language
- CHCI chimpanzee center (Washoe, Loulis)
- Open Outcry
- Legal recognition
- U.S. Army hand and arm signals
- Monastic sign languages
- Tactile signing
- Protactile
- Tic-tac
^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages.
^c Italics indicate extinct languages.