Slovak Sign Language
The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign.[2]
| Slovak Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Slovakia |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2014)[1] |
French Sign
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | svk |
| Glottolog | slov1263 |
Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to Czech Sign Language.
References
- Slovak Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Bickford, 2005. The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe
| Official language | |
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| Minority languages | |
| Sign languages | |
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