Tunisian Sign Language

Tunisian Sign Language
Native to Tunisia
Native speakers
21,000 (2008)[1]
French Sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tse
Glottolog tuni1249[2]

Tunisian Sign Language is the sign language used by deaf people in Tunisia. It derives from Italian Sign Language, mixed with indigenous sign.

References

  1. Tunisian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tunisian Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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