Greek Sign Language
| Greek Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Greece |
Native speakers | 42,600 (1986) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | sgn |
| ISO 639-3 | gss |
Greek Sign Language (Template:Lang-el) is the sign language of the Greek deaf community. It has been legally recognised as the official language of the Deaf Community in Greece by Law 2817 in 2000.
The Greek Sign Language is estimated to be used by about 40,600 signers.[1]
Greek SL formed in the 1950s when American Sign Language and French Sign Language came together, with admixture from indigenous sign.
References
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Eleni Efthimiou. "An Environment for Deaf Accessibility to Educational Content" (PDF). Proceeding of the First International Conference in Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility April 12 – 14, 2007, Hammamet – TUNISIA. Tynisia: Mohamed JEMNI (editor). Retrieved 2010-03-18.
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