This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations.(October 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Dutch Sign Language
Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN) Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT)
Native to
Netherlands
Native speakers
15,000 (2019)[1]
Language family
French Sign
Dutch Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
dse
Glottolog
dutc1253
ELP
Dutch Sign Language
A Dutch Sign Language speaker, recorded in the Netherlands.
Dutch Sign Language (Dutch: Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the predominant sign language used by deaf people in the Netherlands.
Although the same spoken Dutch language is used in the Netherlands and Flanders, the Dutch Sign Language (NGT) is not the same as Flemish Sign Language (VGT). They do have the late 18th-century Old French Sign Language as their common ancestor, but have diverged during the subsequent 200 years, so that mutual intelligibility between modern users has been greatly reduced.[2]
^Dutch Sign Language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^Marten van der Meulen (27 April 2018). "Hoeveel lijken Nederlandse en Vlaamse Gebarentaal op elkaar?". Neerlandistiek (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2020.
and 28 Related for: Dutch Sign Language information
DutchSignLanguage (Dutch: Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; SignLanguage of the Netherlands or SLN) is the predominant signlanguage used by deaf people...
Nederlands met Gebaren (NmG), or SignedDutch, is a manually coded form of Dutch, using the signs of DutchSignLanguage, that is used for pedagogical purposes...
Signlanguages (also known as signedlanguages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
Flemish SignLanguage (Dutch: Vlaamse Gebarentaal, VGT) is a deaf signlanguage of Belgium. It is closely related to French Belgian SignLanguage, but they...
perhaps three hundred signlanguages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new signlanguages emerge frequently through...
Dutch (endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second...
The predominant language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken and written by almost all people in the Netherlands. Dutch is also spoken and official in...
from Ireland. DutchSignLanguage was introduced to the school along with British SignLanguage which developed into Gambian SignLanguage, incorporating...
Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German. A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects are spoken as well. As...
American SignLanguage (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant signlanguage of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
creole languages, pidgin languages, and signlanguages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
Plains Indian SignLanguage (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains SignLanguage, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
Italian SignLanguage or LIS (Lingua dei Segni Italiana) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s,...
legal recognition of signedlanguages differs widely. In some jurisdictions (countries, states, provinces or regions), a signedlanguage is recognised as...
West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of...
The following are signlanguages reported to be used by at least 10,000 people. Additional languages, such as Chinese SignLanguage, are likely to have...
additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and signlanguages. The official language of Indonesia...
speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch in the United States and Canada. The language traditionally has been spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, who are descendants...
Plateau SignLanguage, or Old Plateau SignLanguage, is a poorly attested, extinct signlanguage historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
Monastic signlanguages have been used in Europe from at least the 10th century by Christian monks, and some, such as Cistercian and Trappist sign, are still...
Refers to the Tjwao dialect See Zimbabwean signlanguages In the United States of America, English is the language of the Declaration of Independence, the...
000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting signlanguages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, signlanguage, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by only 42% of the...
language Sakhalin Ainu language (extinct) Kuril Ainu language (extinct) In addition to these two indigenous language families, there is Japanese Sign...
Global Information
