Langue des signes Suisse romande

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Langue des signes suisse romande (LSF-SR)

Spoken in

Switzerland
speaker approx. 1,700
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in -
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

so-called

ISO 639-3

ssr

The Langue des signes Suisse romande ( LSF-SR , Sign Language from Western Switzerland ) is a natural sign language used in French- speaking Switzerland.

LSF-SR is a dialect of French sign language with around 1,700 speakers. There are five regional varieties. Different lexemes are used that are specific to Geneva , Lausanne , Neuchâtel , Friborg or Sitten .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ethnologue: ssr , accessed on July 9, 2015