Sign language used predominately in France and French-speaking Switzerland
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French Sign Language
LSF Langue des signes française Französische Gebärdensprache Lingua dei segni francese Sign Gallica Lingua
LSF in French manual alphabet
Native to
France, Switzerland
Signers
100,000 (2019)[1]
Language family
Francosign
French Sign Language
Early form
Old French Sign
Dialects
Marseille Sign Language[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
fsl – inclusive code Individual code: ssr – Swiss French SL
Glottolog
fren1243 French Sign Language swis1241 Swiss-French Sign Language
ELP
Swiss-French Sign Language
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 to Ethnologue, it has 100,000 native signers.
French Sign Language is related and partially ancestral to Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign Language (LSFB), Irish Sign Language (ISL), American Sign Language (ASL), Quebec (also known as French Canadian) Sign Language (LSQ), Brazilian Sign Language (LSB, LGB or LSCB) and Russian Sign Language (RSL).
^French Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Swiss French SL at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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