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French Sign Language
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sign language used predominately in France and French-speaking Switzerland
Key facts
- Native to
- France , Switzerland
- Signers
- 100,000 (2019)
- Language family
- French Sign French Sign
- Early form
- Old French Sign
- Dialects
- Marseille Sign Language
- Iso 639 3
- fsl – inclusive code, Individual code:, ssr – Swiss-French, Sign Language
- Glottolog
- fren1243 French, Sign Language, swis1241 Swiss-French, Sign Language
- Elp
- Swiss-French Sign Language
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
French Sign Language (French: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in France and in French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to Ethnologue, it has 100,000 native signers.
French Sign Language is related and partially ancestral to Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign Language (LSFB), Irish Sign Language (ISL), American Sign Language (ASL), Quebec (also known as French Canadian) Sign Language (LSQ), Brazilian Sign Language (LSB or Libras) and Russian Sign Language (RSL).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French Sign Language” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.