Greek Sign Language
| Greek Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Greece |
Native speakers | Estimates run from 6,000 to 60,000 (2014)[1] Differences may reflect degree of fluency. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gss |
| Glottolog | gree1271 |
The Greek Sign Language (ENN) is the natural language of the community. It is a complete language that uses the same types of grammatical mechanism that exist in the oral language
The ENN has been legally recognized as the official language area of the Corinthian community for educational purposes in Greece since 2000. The Greek Semantic Language is estimated to be used by some 40,600 scholars. According to A. The term "sign language" can be used with the term "noun language", but this has not been accepted by the Deaf community.
On December 19, 2013, he presented the Declaration on the Constitutional Recognition of the Greek Semantic Language.
Historical evolution
The Greek Legal Language is recognized as the first language of children and of heavy students by Law 2817/2000, "Deaf with" K "are people with reduced hearing capacity who are knowledgeable of the Greek language and have adopted the culture of the Deaf who are members of their community. Since 2000, according to the aforementioned law, as well as 3699/2008, knowledge of the Greek Sign Language is a mandatory qualification for the recruitment of young professionals in the education of deaf students. By Law 4488/2017 (Article 65 (2)). The Greek legal language is recognized as equivalent to the Greek language. In addition, the law stipulates that the state is taking measures to promote it and to cover all the communication needs of the dead and heavy citizens.
It is a language that can be analyzed and studied individually. The peculiarity of the sign is that it is visual and not horizontal. It is not expressed, namely by the voice such as the spoken but by the movement and the form of the hands, the expression of the person, the movements of the body. It has its own grammatical and editorial rules that greatly differentiate the spoken word. The use of sign is a basic prerequisite for the integration of any person into the community of Holes, for inclusion in which the degree of acoustic loss does not matter, but the knowledge of language and the respect of the culture of the Apostles.
Use of language
The Greek Sign Language is not international, as it is wrongly believed. Each country develops its own conceptual language with different basic meanings and a different alphabet. There are common features and many differences at a morphological level. Nonetheless, the Kofi of different states can communicate comfortably through the International Signs, which is essentially a code that serves the simple daily communication needs. As is the case with the spoken languages, there are lectures in each country. Linguistic researches in various semantic languages have shown that every legal language has a specific structure and responds to the global criteria of human languages.
References
- ^ Greek Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Relevant literature
- Hatzopoulou, Marianna. 2008. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language: From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs. Doctoral dissertation, Stockholm University. Online access
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| Greek varieties | |
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| Other languages | |
External links
- WikiSigns.org - Wiki GSL dictionary
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