Lyons Sign Language
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Lyons Sign Language | |
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Native to | France |
Native speakers | (no estimate available) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | lsg |
Lyons Sign Language is an old sign language of France. It is not intelligible with and apparently not related to French Sign Language, which developed in Paris. The number of current speakers is not attested.
Classification
Wittmann (1991)[1] posits that LSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language).
Wittmann further suspects that LSL gave rise to Belgian Sign Language, of which today the two dialects, Flemish Sign Language and French Belgian Sign Language, are treated separately.
References
- ↑ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.
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