German Sign Language family

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German Sign Language
Geographic
distribution
Europe
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's sign language families
Subdivisions
Glottologdgsi1234

The German Sign Language family is a small language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language.[1] The latter also had influence from Austrian Sign Language, which is unrelated, and the parentage is not entirely clear.

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  1. ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]