German Sign Language family

German Sign Language
Geographic
distribution		 Europe
Linguistic classification One of the world's sign language families
Subdivisions
Glottolog dgsi1234[1]

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.[2] The latter also had influence from Austrian Sign Language, which is unrelated, and the parentage is not entirely clear.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "DGSic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ 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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