British Sign Language
| British Sign Language | ||
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Spoken in |
England , Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland | |
| speaker | approx. 40,000 native speakers approx. 900,000 second speakers |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
sgn (sign languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
British sign language (BSL) is the sign language of the hearing impaired, which in the UK is used.
BSL is the mother tongue or the preferred language of approximately 70,000 deaf or hard of hearing in the UK.
Like other sign languages, she uses hands, facial expressions and posture for this. Many thousands of listeners use BSL, more than for example the Gaelic language .
Although the US and UK have the same spoken language, the two sign languages BSL and American Sign Language (ASL) are incomprehensible to one another. In addition, the manual alphabet is different in the two, with ASL using only one hand and BSL using both hands.
The sign languages in Australia ( Auslan ) and New Zealand ( New Zealand Sign Language ) are largely based on BSL.
See also
literature
- Rachel Sutton-Spence, Bencie Woll: The linguistics of British Sign Language. An Introduction. Emphasis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-63718-3 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Lebsanft and Monika Wingender (eds.): The language policy of the Council of Europe. The “European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages” from a linguistic and legal point of view. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027653-4 , p. 57.