Nicaraguan Sign Language
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sign language used in Nicaragua
Key facts
- Native to
- Nicaragua
- Region
- The Managua region and spreading throughout the country
- Native speakers
- 3,000 (1997)
- Language family
- Deaf-community sign language : developed as a creole language from home and idioglossic sign, with the addition of an ASL -influenced manual alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- ncs
- Glottolog
- nica1238
- Elp
- Nicaraguan Sign Language
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- sign language
- Country
- Nicaragua
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- indigenous to
- Managua Department
- inception
- 1980-00-00
- influenced by
- home sign
- native label
- Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua
- linguistic typology
- language isolate
- Commons category
- Nicaraguan Sign Language
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Spanish: Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a sign language developed by deaf children in several schools in Nicaragua.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nicaraguan Sign Language” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.