French Sign Language
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| French Sign Language | |
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| LSF Langue des Signes Française Französische Gebärdensprache Lingua dei Segni Francese Sign Gallica Lingua | |
.jpg?lang=en) LSF in French manual alphabet | |
| Native to | France, Switzerland |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2014)[1] |
Old French Sign
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fsl – inclusive codeIndividual code: ssr – Swiss French SL |
| Glottolog | fren1243 French Sign Languageswis1241 Swiss-French Sign Language |
French Sign Lang
History
This situation remained unchanged in France until the late 1970s, when the deaf community began to militate for greater recognition of sign language and for a bilingual education system. In 1991 the National Assembly passed the Fabius law, officially authorising the use of LSF for the education of deaf children. A law was passed in 2005 fully recognising LSF as a language in its own right.[2]
Alphabet
The French manual alphabet is used both to distinguish signs of LSF and to incorporate French words while signing.
See also
References
- ^ French Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Swiss French SL at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ "Article L312-9-1". Legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
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