List of sign languages

Representation of different gestures, here in American Sign Language ( ASL ) on a frieze at a US school for the deaf

The list of sign languages performs in the countries or language areas of the earth mostly common sign languages , which in sign language families , as a historical sign languages and, as appropriate, as well as a selection of the best known contemporary sign languages planned languages or Pidgin are given. The list does not claim to be complete and does not take into account any regional sign language dialects .

Sign languages are the natural languages ​​of the deaf .

Sign language families

Classification of the sign language families according to Henri Wittmann :

• British sign languages (including BSL , Auslan or NZSL )
• French sign languages (including DSGS , ÖGS or ASL )
• German sign languages (including DGS or PJM )
• Japanese Sign Languages (includes Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese sign languages ​​such as Japanese Sign Language (JSL))
• Lyon sign languages ( Flemish as well as Franco-Belgian sign language)
• Isolated sign languages ​​(e.g. Lengua de Signos Española )

Today's sign languages

Here are some sign languages, how they are officially called and how they are abbreviated. These are reproduced in finger alphabet. There are numerous other sign languages ​​whose official name is not known in their national language.

German-speaking area

• German Sign Language (DGS)
• Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS)
• Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)

Europe

The signs for "friend" in four different sign languages, from left:
* British Sign Language = British Sign Language (BSL)
* Spanish Sign Language = Lengua de Signos Española (LSE)
* French Sign Language = Langue des Signes Française (LSF)
* Catalan Sign Language = Llengua de Signes Catalana (LSC)

• British Sign Language (BSL) British sign language
• Český znakový jazyk (ČZJ) Czech sign language
• Dansk tegnsprog (DT) Danish sign language
• Eesti viipekeel (EVK) Estonian sign language
• Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) Finnish sign language
• Irish Sign Language (ISL) Irish Sign Language
• Langue des Signes Belge (LSB) Belgian sign language
• Langue des Signes Française (LSF) French sign language
• Langue des signes Suisse romande (LSF-SR) Sign language in western Switzerland
• Latviešu Zīmju Valodas (LZV) Latvian Sign Language
• Lengua de Signos Española (LSE) Spanish sign language
• Lietuvių gestų kalba (LGK) Lithuanian sign language
• Lingua dei segni della Svizzera italiana (LIS-SI) Ticino Sign Language
• Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS) Italian sign language
• Lingua Gestual Portuguesa (LGP) Portuguese sign language
• Lingwi tas-Sinjali Maltin (LSM) Maltese Sign Language
• Llengua de Signes Catalana (LSC) Catalan Sign Language
• Llengua de Signes Valenciana (LSCV) Valencian Sign Language
• Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT) Dutch sign language
• Norsk tegnspråk (NTS) Norwegian sign language
• Polski Język Migowy (PJM) Polish Sign Language
• Svenskt teckenspråk (STS) Swedish sign language
• Türk İşaret Dili (TİD) Turkish sign language
• Vlaamse Gebarentaal (VGT) Flemish Sign Language
• Ελληνική Νοηματική Γλώσσα (ΕΝΓ) Greek sign language
• Táknmál Icelandic Sign Language

Asia

• Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

Overseas

Demonstration of deaf people calling for the continued promotion of AUSLAN sign language courses in May 2012 in front of the Australian Parliament

• Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana)
• American Sign Language (ASL) American sign language
• Auslan Australian Sign Language
• Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM) Malay Sign Language
• Ghanaian Sign Language
• Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense (ISN) Nicaraguan Sign Language
• Langue des Signes Québécoise (LSQ) French-Canadian sign language
• Lengua de Señas Costarricense (LESCO) Costa Rican sign language
• Lengua de Señas Uruguaya (LSU) Uruguayan Sign Language
• Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) Brazilian sign language
• New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) New Zealand Sign Language
• 日本 手 話 (Nihon shuwa) or Japanese Sign Language (JSL) Japanese sign language
• 中国 手 语 (zhōngwén shǒuyǔ) in China (except Hong Kong, Aomen and Taiwan).
• For a list of Aboriginal sign languages, see Aboriginal Sign Languages ​​# List of Aboriginal Sign Languages

Historical sign languages

• Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) Martha's Vineyards Sign Language
• Plains Indian Sign Language (spoken by the Native Americans )

Planned languages ​​and pidgin languages ​​among the sign languages

Planned languages

• Baby Signs - Signs for hearing babies and toddlers
• Gestuno †
• Makaton [1] - for children and adults with learning disabilities in the UK
• Signuno - LBG based on Esperanto and Gestuno (in the project stage)

Pidgin languages

• Eurosigns
• International Sign
• Pidgin Signed English

See also

• History of Sign Languages
• Deafness
• History of the Deaf
• Deaf culture

Web links

• Video database with sign videos from various national states
• List of sign languages (English.)
• Signes du Monde (English / French) Sign languages ​​Lexicons list

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