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Peruvian Sign Language

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Peruvian Sign Language
Native toPeru
Native speakers
unknown
Language codes
ISO 639-2sgn
ISO 639-3prl
ELPPeruvian Sign Language

Peruvian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Peru. It is used primarily outside the classroom.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[1] posits that ESL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.

References

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