National Historical Committee marker for the Philippine School for the Deaf and the Blind
Native to
Philippines
Native speakers
121,000 (2008) to est. 325,000–650,000 (2021)[1]
Language family
French Sign
American Sign?
Filipino Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
psp
Glottolog
phil1239
Filipino Sign Language (FSL) or Philippine Sign Language (Filipino: Wikang pasenyas ng mga Pilipino),[2] is a sign language originating in the Philippines. Like other sign languages, FSL is a unique language with its own grammar, syntax and morphology; it is not based on and does not resemble Filipino or English.[3] Some researchers consider the indigenous signs of FSL to be at risk of being lost due to the increasing influence of American Sign Language.[3]
The Republic Act 11106 or The Filipino Sign Language Act, effective November 27, 2018, declared FSL as the national sign language of the Filipino Deaf.[4]
^Filipino Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Filipino (English: /ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnoʊ/ , FIH-lih-PEE-noh; Wikang Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family. It...
FilipinoLanguage and serves as a lingua franca used by Filipinos of various ethnolinguistic backgrounds. Republic Act 11106 declares FilipinoSign Language...
the FilipinoLanguage (CFL), also referred to as the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), is the official regulating body of the Filipinolanguage and the...
influenced by Salvadoran SignLanguage. See also Chiriqui SignLanguage. FilipinoSignLanguage (FSL) or Philippine SignLanguage (Filipino: Wikang pasenyas ng...
The FilipinoSignLanguage (FSL) is the official language of education for deaf Filipinos, which number around 121,000 as of 2000[update]. The first incidence...
Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11106, a law declaring the FilipinoSignLanguage as the national signlanguage of the Filipino deaf and the official sign language...
perhaps three hundred signlanguages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new signlanguages emerge frequently through...
province. The FilipinoSignLanguage is designated as the "national signlanguage of the Filipino deaf" as well as the official signlanguage for transactions...
languages of the Philippines are Filipino and, until otherwise provided by law, English. The regional languages are the auxiliary official languages in...
as the National SignLanguage. Genalyn Kabiling (12 November 2018). "FilipinoSignLanguage declared as nat'l signlanguage of Filipino deaf". Manila Bulletin...
second languages such as English and Filipino. Approximately more than 175 languages and dialects in the Philippines form part of the regional languages group...
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American SignLanguage (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant signlanguage of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino. Due to the influx of Filipino English teachers overseas, Philippine...
and as a second language by the majority. Its standardized form, officially named Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines, and is one of...
some Filipinos were repatriated. Today, Tagalog, together with its standardized form Filipino, is spoken by over a million and a half Filipino Americans...
(Spanish: español filipino or castellano filipino) is the variety of standard Spanish spoken in the Philippines, used primarily by Spanish Filipinos. Spanish as...
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Malay (Filipino: Wikang Malayo; Malay: Bahasa Melayu) spoken by a minority of Filipinos, particularly in the Palawan, Sulu Archipelago and parts of Mindanao...
Co-official language of the Philippines National and co-official language of the Philippines Philippine Mandarin as taught in Chinese Filipino schools Historical...
Quebec SignLanguage (French: Langue des signes québécoise or du Québec, LSQ) is the predominant signlanguage of deaf communities used in francophone...
Plateau SignLanguage, or Old Plateau SignLanguage, is a poorly attested, extinct signlanguage historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...
Maranao (Filipino: Mëranaw; Kirim: باسا أ مراناو) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people in the provinces of Lanao del Sur and Lanao...
languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language—and form a subfamily...
southern Philippines. Signlanguages include Malaysian SignLanguage and the older Selangor SignLanguage and Penang SignLanguage. No signlanguage is used...
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