French sign languages

The French sign languages are a sign language family that influenced most of the sign languages ​​in the world. It has its origins in the old French sign language developed in the 17th century .

classification

In 1991, Henri Wittmann established the following classification of French sign languages ​​on the basis of research carried out by Anderson and Peterson in 1979:

• 1752: Langue des signes française
• 1780: Austro-Hungarian sign languages from which the following languages ​​were developed or influenced:
  • Austrian sign language
  • Slovak sign language
  • Czech sign language
  • Hungarian sign language
    • 1806: Russian sign language , from which the following language was developed or influenced:
    • Bulgarian sign language
  • 1840: Yugoslavian sign languages , from which the following languages ​​have been developed or influenced:
    • Kosovar Sign Language
    • Croatian sign language
    • Macedonian Sign Language
    • Slovenian sign language
• 1799: Dutch Sign Language
• 1806: Danish Sign Language
• 1806: Latvian Sign Language
• 1806 (uncertain): Filipino Sign Language
• 1817: ASL , from which the following languages ​​were developed or influenced:
  • Bolivian Sign Language
  • Pigdin-Hawaiian Sign Language
  • Eskimo sign language
  • Kenyan Sign Language
  • Malagasy Sign Language
  • Québec Sign Language
  • Chadian Sign Language
  • Zimbabwean Sign Language
• 1825: Norwegian sign language (influenced by German sign languages):
  • Finnish sign language
  • Finnish-Swedish sign language
  • Swedish Sign Language (unsure)
• 1828: Italian sign language , from which the following languages ​​were developed or influenced:
  • Libyan sign language
  • Tunisian sign language
  • Ethiopian sign language
• 1828: Swiss sign languages from which the following languages ​​were developed or influenced:
  • Ticino Sign Language (today a dialect of Italian Sign Language is assumed)
  • Swiss-German Sign Language (unsure descent)
  • Sign language in western Switzerland (today a dialect of French sign language is assumed)
• 1846: Irish Sign Language
• 1907: Porto Rican Sign Language
• 1950 (uncertain): Greek Sign Language (influenced by ASL)
• 1951: Thai Sign Language (influenced by ASL and indigenous sign languages)
• 1960: Ghanaian Sign Language (influence from ASL)
• 1960 (uncertain): Malay Sign Language (influence from ASL)
• 1960: Nigerian Sign Language (influenced by ASL)
• 1987: Moroccan Sign Language (influence from ASL)
• Algerian sign language
• Catalan Sign Language
• Mexican sign language
• Romanian sign language

See also

• List of sign languages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anderson, Lloyd B., Peterson, David 1979, A Comparison of Some American, British, Australian, and Swedish Signs , in Evidence on Historical Changes in Signs and Some Family Relationships of Sign Languages , Google Books
2. ^ 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
3. ↑ Braem, Penny Boyes, Haug, Tobias, Shores, Patty: Sign language work in Switzerland: Review and Outlook , Hamburg: Journal for Language and Culture of the Deaf