Austrian sign language

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Austrian sign language

Spoken in

Austria
speaker approx. 10,000 - 12,000
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in -
Recognized minority /
regional language in 		AustriaAustria Austria
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

so-called

ISO 639-3

asq

Finger alphabet of the ÖGS

The Austrian Sign Language ( ÖGS ) is the sign language used in Austria .

grammar

In the ÖGS, the position of a statement is basically: subject  - object  - predicate . Temporal information is usually marked at the beginning of a sentence.

As is currently the case with all sign languages ​​in the world, individual signs consist of manual and non-manual components. The manual components include: hand shape, hand orientation and position, place of execution and movement. The non-manual include: facial expressions , mouth gestures , mouth image, head and body posture and the direction of gaze.

Legal position

The ÖGS has been expressly recognized as a language since September 1, 2005 in Article 8, Paragraph 3 of the Federal Constitutional Law . It says: “The Austrian sign language is recognized as an independent language. The details are determined by the laws. ”This means that the Austrian sign language is officially recognized, but there are no laws that secure the right to own schools or educational institutions (as exist for the Slovenian language or the Burgenland-Croatian language in Austria).

literature

  • Andrea Skant u. a .: Grammar of Austrian Sign Language (=  publications by the Research Center for Sign Language and Communication for the Hearing Impaired at the University of Klagenfurt , Volume 4). Research Center for Sign Language and Communication for the Hearing Impaired, Klagenfurt (Austria) 2002.
  • Verena Krausneker: Austria's first minority language. In: Voice of and for Minorities , No. 56, 2005.
  • Petra Berger: The Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) in the Age of Enlightenment. Leykam, Graz (Austria) 2006, ISBN 3-7011-0074-8 (also dissertation, University of Graz 2005).
  • Verena Krausneker (author); Dietmar Larcher (Ed.): Deaf and dumb to sign language. The Austrian sign language community from a sociolinguistic perspective (=  Educazione bilingue , Volume 27). Drava-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-85435-475-4 .
  • Verena Krausneker: Austrian sign language is recognized. In: Rudolf de Cillia, Eva Vetter (ed.): Language policy in Austria. Inventory 2011 (=  language in context , volume 40). Lang-Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-63686-2 , pp. 127-141.

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