Slovak Sign Language
| Slovak Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Slovakia |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2014)[1] |
|
French Sign
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
svk |
| Glottolog |
slov1263[2] |
The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign.[3]
Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to Czech Sign Language.
References
- ↑ Slovak Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Slovakian Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Bickford, 2005. The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe
| Official language | |
|---|---|
| Minority languages | |
| Sign languages | |
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