Peruvian Sign Language
| Peruvian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
Native speakers | (no estimate available)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
prl |
| Glottolog |
peru1235[2] |
Peruvian Sign Language (PRL) is the deaf sign language of Peru. It is used primarily outside the classroom.
Classification
Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that PRL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.
References
- ↑ Peruvian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Peruvian Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.