• Italian Sign Language or LIS (Lingua dei Segni Italiana) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along...
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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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    The Italian language in the Italian Switzerland or Swiss Italian (Italian: italiano svizzero, Italian: [itaˈljano ˈzvittsero]) is the variety of the Italian...
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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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    Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also legal tender in the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia which is surrounded by Swiss territory. The Swiss National...
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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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    Italian (italiano, Italian: [itaˈljaːno] , or lingua italiana, Italian: [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family...
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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 to...
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    standard language is Italian. In some autonomous regions or provinces bilingual signs are used (mainly Italian/German in South Tyrol, Italian/French in...
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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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    which Italy is a member). The two countries share a long border, three common languages (Italian is one of Switzerland's four official languages, German...
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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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    The languages of Italy include Italian, which serves as the country's national language, in its standard and regional forms, as well as numerous local...
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    2020 Liechtenstein acceded to the Convention. The Swiss road signs are defined in the Road Signs Act, which is based on several laws and ordinances....
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  • as in the English language. Less formally it is also known as kanelbulle ('cinnamon roll') or alfakrull ('alpha curl'). In Swiss German, it is commonly...
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  • the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch, or German: Hochdeutsch, is the written form of one of four official languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian, and...
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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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    Rhaeto-Italian,or Rhaetian, is a purported subfamily of the Romance languages that is spoken in south-eastern Switzerland and north-eastern Italy. The name...
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    Gallo-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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  • 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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    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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    000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
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    directional signs Local language texts (sometimes bilingual) The meaning and colour-coding of horizontal road surface markings Warning signs in Ireland...
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  • or silcrow. In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German: Paragrafzeichen). The section sign is often used when referring...
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    The lira (/ˈlɪərə/ LEER-ə, Italian: [ˈliːra]; pl.: lire, /ˈlɪəreɪ/ LEER-eh, Italian: [ˈliːre]) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was...
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    2023-12-25. "German, Swiss | Ethnologue Free". Ethnologue (Free All). Retrieved 2023-12-25. "Swiss German (Schwytzerdütsch) language, alphabets and pronunciation"...
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    Luxembourg. The most common languages spoken by them, other than German and French, are Portuguese, English and Italian. In addition to Luxembourgish...
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    French, and Italian). Berne, Switzerland. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016. English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation...
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    of Italians spoke Portuguese at home. The stronger preservation of the German language when compared to the Italian one has many factors: Italian is closer...
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    potential sign language families: Francosign languages, such as LSF, ASL, Dutch Sign Language, Flemish Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language. BANZSL...
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