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    French Sign Language (French: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According...
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  • that Swiss-German Sign Language may be part of the French Sign Language family, but it is not close and this is not easy to demonstrate. In Switzerland, the...
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  • French 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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    national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages at the...
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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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    immigration to Switzerland Italy–Switzerland relations Swiss French Swiss German Swiss Standard German Ticinese dialect Discover SwitzerlandLanguage – facts...
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    the Lower Valais. French is the sole official language in four Swiss cantons: Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura. Additionally, French and German have co-official...
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    the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia which is surrounded by Swiss territory. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) issues banknotes and the federal mint Swissmint...
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    Switzerland. The principal law for road signs in Switzerland is the Road Signs Act (German: Signalisationsverordnung (SSV), French: Ordonnance du sur la signalisation...
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  • the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch, or German: Hochdeutsch, is the written form of one (German) of four national languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian...
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    a language (French is one of Switzerland's four official languages). French-Swiss relations date back to the Middle Ages, when the Kingdom of France and...
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    Of the languages of France, French is the sole official language according to the second article of the French Constitution. French, a Gallo-Romance language...
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    langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced...
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    both English and French official to the same extent. French is Quebec's official language, although legislation is enacted in both French and English and...
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    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...
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  • (official language) Italian (official language) Sign languages: Swiss-German Sign language Swiss-French Sign language, recognized in Canton of Geneva Swiss-Italian...
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    Confederation (Switzerland) regardless of ethno-cultural background or people of self-identified Swiss ancestry. The number of Swiss nationals has grown...
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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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  • Italian Sign Language (Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s...
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  • that comprise Swiss German must not be confused with Swiss Standard German, the variety of Standard German used in Switzerland. Swiss Standard German...
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    Austrian Sign Language, which is used in parts of southern Germany, nor to Swiss Sign Language, both of which are part of the French Sign Language family...
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  • German Sign Language and Swiss Sign Language, while the vocabulary differs (see Skant et al. 2002); Wittmann (1991) places it in the French Sign Language family)...
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    linen) of the Old Swiss Confederacy since its formation in the late 13th or early 14th century. Its symbolism was described by the Swiss Federal Council...
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    three official languages: French, German, and the national language Luxembourgish, established in law in 1984. These three languages are also referred...
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  • commercial at, or address sign. The absence of a single English word for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French arobase, Occitan arròba...
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    official languages of Hong Kong. All roads and government signs are bilingual, and both languages are used in academia, business and the courts, as well...
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    Road signs in France refer to all conventional signals installed on French roads and intended to ensure the safety of road users, either by informing...
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  • The Charter of the French Language (French: La charte de la langue française), also known as Bill 101 (French: Loi 101), is a law in the Canadian province...
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    Rhaeto-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden). Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since...
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    independent Old Swiss Confederacy collapsed from the invasion and simultaneous internal revolts called the "Helvetic Revolution". The Swiss ancien régime...
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