Dansk tegnsprog
Dansk tegnsprog Danish sign language |
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Denmark | |
speaker | approx. 5,000 | |
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Official language in | - | |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
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ISO 639-3 |
The Dansk tegnsprog ( Danish Sign Language , DTS) is the sign language used in Denmark .
Classification
Based on similarities in vocabulary, Henri Wittmann suspects that the Dansk tegnsprog belongs to the family of French sign languages . However, Peter Atke Castberg , the founder of Denmark's first school for the deaf (1807) is said to have adopted the local sign language much more, supplemented with missing words from the Langue des signes française (LSF).
The Íslenskt táknmál , the Icelandic sign language, is related to the Danish sign language: A study showed that 37% of the examined signs were completely different, 16% were similar, the rest were identical.
The Faroese and Greenlandic sign languages can be seen as dialects of Dansk tegnsprog.
See also
Web links
- Ordbog over Dansk Tegnsprog Free DTS Dictionary.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10: 1.215–88. [1]
- ↑ Brita Bergman & Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, 2010. Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries. In Brentari, ed., Sign Languages . Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Aldersson, Russell R. and Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis. 2007. A Lexical Comparison of Icelandic Sign Language and Danish Sign Language. Birkbeck Studies in Applied Linguistics Vol 2. A Lexical Comparison of Icelandic Sign Language and Danish Sign Language