German sign languages

The German sign language family is a small sign language family .

In 1991, Henri Wittmann established a classification of the sign language families and assigned the following sign languages ​​to the family of German sign languages:

• German Sign Language
• Polish sign language
• Israeli sign language (via the Austro-Hungarian sign languages, it may also be included in the French sign language family )

See also

• List of sign languages
• History of Sign Languages

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wittmann, Henri 1991, Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement , in Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée , Vol. 10, No. 1, pages 215–288, online (PDF; 180 kB), accessed July 10, 2013