Latvian Sign Language

Latvian Sign Language
Native to Latvia
Native speakers
2,000 (2014)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lsl
Glottolog latv1245[2]

Latvian Sign Language is the sign language used by deaf people in Latvia. It separated from French Sign Language some time around 1806.

References

  1. Latvian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Latvian Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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