Polish Sign Language
Polish Sign Language | |
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Polski Język Migowy | |
Native to | Poland |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2014)[1] |
German Sign
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
pso |
Glottolog |
poli1259 [2] |
Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) is the language of the Deaf community in Poland. Its lexicon and grammar are distinct from the Polish language, although there is a manually coded version of Polish known as System Językowo-Migowy (SJM, or Signed Polish), which is often used by interpreters on television and by teachers in schools.
Manual alphabet
Polish Sign Language uses a one-handed manual alphabet based on the alphabet used in Old French Sign Language. However, the language itself derives from German Sign Language.
References
- ↑ Polish Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Polish Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
External links
- (Polish) Polish manual alphabet
- Polish Association of the Deaf official website
- (Polish) History of Polish Sign Language