• Swedish Sign Language (STS; Swedish: Svenskt teckenspråk) is the sign language used in Sweden. It is recognized by the Swedish government as the country's...
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    The Swedish Sign Language family is a language family of sign languages, including Swedish Sign Language, Portuguese Sign Language, Cape Verdian Sign Language...
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    national minority languages — Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language. For most of its history, Sweden was a larger...
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  • Finnish Sign Language). Finnish Sign Language is derived from Swedish Sign Language, which is a different language from Finnish Swedish Sign Language (which...
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    languages: Swedish Sign Language, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language, Portuguese Sign Language, Eritrean Sign Language and the Cape...
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    Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL; Swedish: Finlandssvenskt teckenspråk, Finnish: Suomenruotsalainen viittomakieli) is a moribund sign language in Finland...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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  • influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a school for the Deaf that was established in Lisbon by Swedish educator Pär Aron Borg. Portuguese Sign is the basis...
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    Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language and Karelian. Finnish is the language of the majority, 85.7% of the population...
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    Wittmann (1991), Swedish Sign Language also descends from BSL. From Swedish SL arose Portuguese Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language, the latter with...
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  • Icelandic Sign Language (Icelandic: Íslenskt táknmál) is the sign language of the deaf community in Iceland. It is based on Danish Sign Language; until 1910...
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    Swedish (endonym: svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts...
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  • Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language...
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  • Danish Sign Language (Danish: Dansk tegnsprog, DTS) is the sign language used in Denmark. Henri Wittmann (1991) assigned DSL to the French Sign Language family...
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  • The Language Council of Sweden (Swedish: Språkrådet) is the primary regulatory body for the advancement and cultivation of the Swedish language. The council...
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  • EriSL. It formally developed out of the Swedish and Finnish Sign Languages, which were introduced by Swedish and Finnish Christian missionaries in 1955...
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  • Finnish). The Swedish language dominates commercial and cultural life in Sweden but did not officially become the country's main language until 2009, when...
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  • Catalan Sign Language, Spanish Sign Language, Swiss German Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language List of sign languages Village sign language Meir, Irit;...
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  • Tactile signing is a common means of communication used by people with deafblindness. It is based on a sign language or another system of manual communication...
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    Swedish (cf. Finland Swedish), the Sami languages, Romani language, as well as Finnish Sign Language and Finland-Swedish Sign Language. The institute is...
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    Road signs in Sweden are regulated in the Traffic Sign Ordinance (2007:90) (VMF, Swedish: Vägmärkesförordningen). Most signs are based on pictograms,...
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  • Estonian Sign Language (Estonian: eesti viipekeel, EVK) is the national sign language of Estonia. Research into the origins and nature of EVK did not begin...
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  • 2024. Sweden was one of the first countries in the world to officially recognize a signed language as a language. In 1981, Swedish Sign Language (SSL)...
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  • new students. Namibian Sign has been influenced by both American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language. Namibian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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  • Cape Verdian Sign Language (Língua Gestual Caboverdiana) is the sign language used by the deaf community in Cape Verde, numbering around 1500–4000. It...
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    BANZSL languages, including British Sign Language (BSL), New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL), Australian Sign Language (Auslan), and Swedish Sign Language. Isolate...
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  • suggested that Swedish Sign, German Sign and British Sign share one origin in a "North-West European" sign language. Swiss German Sign Language Wittmann, Henri...
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    Groups, Finnish Sign Language (which belongs to the Swedish Sign Language family) had a French-origin MA, while Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (whose lexicon...
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  • Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and...
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    Estonian Sign Language was influenced by Russian and Finnish Sign Language; for example, the ESL sign for 'butterfly' developed from the Finnish sign for 'bird'...
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