Honduran Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas hondureña, LESHO) is the dominant sign language used in Honduras. American Sign Language is also used; the two are not related.
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Sign language
List of sign languages
List by number of signers
Language families[a]
Sign languages by family
Australian Aboriginal (multiple families)[c]
Diyari
Djingili
Eltye eltyarrenke
Iltyeme iltyeme
Jaralde
Kalkutungu
Miriwoong
Mudburra
Pitha Pitha
Rdaka rdaka
Umpila
Far North Queensland
Warlmanpa
Warluwara
Warramunga
Worora Kinship
Yan-nhaŋu
Yir Yoront
Yolŋu
Western Desert
Kartutjarra
Manjiljarra
Ngaatjatjarra
Zendath Kesign
Meriam
Western Torres Strait Islander
Arab (Ishaaric)
Egyptian
Kuwaiti
Libyan
Qatari Unified
Yemeni
Iraqi– Levantine
Iraqi
Levantine
Jordanian
Lebanese
Palestinian
Syrian
Possible
Emirati
Saudi
Omani
BANZSL
Auslan
Papua New Guinean (PNGSL)
British (BSL)
Northern Ireland (NISL)
Fijian
Maritime (MSL)
New Zealand (NZSL)
Samoan
South African (SASL)
Swedish Sign
Eritrean (EriSL)
Finland-Swedish (FinSSL)
Portuguese (LGP)
Swedish (Teckenspråk)
Finnish (Viittomakieli)
Chinese Sign
Chinese (CSL/ZGS)
Shanghai
Hong Kong (HKSL)
Macau
Chilean-Paraguayan- Uruguayan Sign
Chilean (LSCh)
Paraguayan- Uruguayan Sign
Paraguay (LSPY)
Uruguay (LSU)
Francosign
Algerian (LSA)
Swiss-German (DSGS)
Estonian (Eesti viipekeel)
Irish (ISL)
Australian-Irish
Brazilian (Libras)
Lithuanian
Catalan (LSC)
Valencian (LSV)
French (LSF)
Old French[c]
Romanian (LSR)
American (ASLic)
American (ASL)
Black ASL (BASL)
Protactile
Bolivian
Burmese
Yangon
Mandalay
Cambodian
Costa Rican
Dominican
Jamaican
Malaysian (BIM)
Oneida (OSL)
Panamanian
Filipino (FSL)
Puerto Rican (PRSL)
Quebec (LSQ)
Singapore (SgSL)
Indonesian (Nusantaric)
Indonesian (Bisindo)
Jakarta
Yogyakarta
Francophone African (Françafrosign)
Ethiopian
Chadian
Ghanaian
Guinean
Bamako (LaSiMa)
Moroccan
Nigerian
Sierra Leonean
Mixed, Hand Talk
Oneida (OSL)
Mixed, Hoailona ʻŌlelo
Creole Hawaiʻi Sign Language (CHSL)
Mixed, French (LSF)
Greek (ΕΝΓ/ENG)
Cypriot (ΚΝΓ/KNG)
Austro- Hungarian
Russian Sign
Bulgarian (БЖЕ)
Georgian
Latvian (LSL)
Mongolian
Russian (РЖЯ)
Yugoslavic Sign
Croatian (HZJ)
Kosovar
Serbian
Slovenian
Yugoslav (YSL)
Dutch Sign
Dutch (NGT)
Gambian
Italian Sign
Italian (LIS)
Tunisian (TSL)
Mexican Sign
Mexican (LSM)
Honduran (LESHO)
Old Belgian
Flemish (VGT)
French Belgian (LSFB)
Danish (Tegnic)
Malagasy
Icelandic (Táknmál)
Norwegian (Tegnspråk)
Danish (Tegnsprog)
Teknmál
Viet-Thai
Hai Phong
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Thai (TSL/MSTSL)
German Sign
German (DGS)
Polish (PJM)
Israeli (Shassi)
Indo-Pakistani Sign
Bangalore-Madras
Beluchistan
Bengali
Bombay
Calcutta
Delhi
Nepali
North West Frontier Province
Punjab-Sindh
Japanese Sign
Japanese (JSL/Nihon Shuwa)
Korean (KSL/Hanguk Sueo)
Taiwanese (TSL/Taiwan Shouyu)
Kentish[c]
Old Kentish
Chilmark
Martha's Vineyard (MVSL)
Mayan (Meemul Tziij)
Highland Maya
Yucatec
Chicán
Nohkop
Nohya
Trascorral
Cepeda Peraza
Original Thai Sign
Chiangmai
Hai Phong
Old Bangkok
Paget Gorman
Namibian (NSL)
Plains Sign Language
Anishinaabe
Apsáalooke
Arikara
Chaticks si Chaticks
Cheyenne
Coahuilteco
Dane-zaa
Diné
Hinono'eino
Hiraacá
Icāk
Karankawa
Liksiyu
Maagiadawa
Meciciya ka pekiskwakehk
Nakota
Ni Mii Puu
Niimíipuu
Niitsítapi
Nųmą́khų́·ki
Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Omaha
Palus
Piipaash
Ppáⁿkka
Schitsu'umsh
Shiwinna
Sioux
Taos
Tickanwa•tic
Tháumgá
Tsuu T'ina
Umatilla
Wazhazhe
Wichita
Wíyut'a / Wíblut'e
Wyandot
Mixed, American (ASL)
Oneida (OSL)
Plateau
A'aninin
Kalispel
Ktunaxa (ʾa·qanⱡiⱡⱡitnam)
Nesilextcl'n
Shuswap (Secwepemcékst)
Sqeliz
Providencia– Cayman Sign
Providence Island (Provisle)
Old Cayman (Guyanese)
Isolates
Afghan
Al-Sayyid Bedouin (ABSL)
Albanian (AlbSL)
Albarradas Sign Language
Alipur
Argentine (LSA)
Armenian
Caucasian (Harsneren)[c]
Azerbaijani (AİD)
Belizean
Bhutanese
Tibetan (Bökyi lagda)
Bribri
Brunca
Cena
Chatino
Cuban (LSC)
Navajo/Diné Family
Dogon/Douentza
Ecuadorian (LSEC)
Enga
Ghandruk
Ghardaia (AJSL)
Guatemalan (Lensegua)
Guinea-Bissau
Henniker[c]
Hawaiʻi (Hoailona ʻŌlelo)
Creole HSL
Inuit
Atgangmuurniq
Greenlandic (Ussersuataarneq)
Jhankot
Jumla
Ka'apor
Kajana
Kafr Qasim
Kailge
Kata Kolok
Kenyan (KSL/LAK)
Somali (SSL)
Keresan Pueblo (KPISL/Keresign)
Kisindo
Jamaican Country (KS/Konchri Sain)
Macedonian
Maltese (LSM)
Hausa (HSL/Magannar Hannu)
Mardin
Mauritian (MSL)
M'bour
Mehek
Miyakubo Shuwa
Burkina (Mossi)
Mount Avejaha
Mozambican
Naga
Nicaraguan (ISN)
Old Costa Rican
Ottoman (Seraglio/Harem)
Ban Khor (Pasa kidd)
Penang
Persian
Peruvian (LSP)
Inmaculada
Qahveh Khaneh
Rennellese[c]
Rossel Island
Rwandan (AKR/AMR)
Sandy River[c]
Salvadoran
Sinasina
Sivia
Spanish (LSE)
Tebul
Trinidad and Tobago (TTSL)
Turkish (TİD)
Ugandan (USL)
Venezuelan (LSV/VSL)
Wanib
West African
Adamorobe (AdaSL / Mumu kasa)
Bura (Burasl)
Mofu-Gudur
Nanabin (NanabinSL)
Yoruban (YSL)
Zambian
Other groupings
Amami Shuwa languages
Ethiopian languages
Laotian languages
Sri Lankan languages
Sudanese languages (~150)[b]
Tanzanian languages (7+)[b]
Zimsign languages
International Sign
By region[a]
Sign languages by region
Africa
Algeria
Algerian
Ghardaia
Cameroon
Maroua
Ghana
Adamorobe (AdaSL / Mumu kasa)
Nanabin
Ivory Coast
Bouakako (LaSiBo)
Kenya
Kenyan
Mali
Tebul
Bamako (LaSiMa)
Nigeria
Bura
Hausa (Magannar Hannu)
Senegal
Mbour
Somalia, Somaliland & Djibouti
Somali
South Africa
South African
Tanzania
Tanzanian
Uganda
Ugandan
Zambia
Zambian
Asia
Bengal
Bengali
Cambodia
Cambodian
China
Chinese
Hong Kong
Hong Kong (HKSL)
India
Alipur
Bengali
Indo-Pakistani
Naga
Indonesia
Indonesian
Kata Kolok (Benkala, Balinese)
Iran
Persian
Iraq
Iraqi
Kurdish
Israel
Al-Sayyid Bedouin
Ghardaia
Israeli
Kafr Qasem
Japan
Amami Oshima
Japanese
Miyakubo
Korea
Korean
Laos
Laotian
Malaysia
Malaysian
Penang
Selangor
Mongolia
Mongolian
Nepal
Ghandruk
Jhankot
Jumla
Nepalese
Philippines
Filipino
Saudi Arabia
Saudi
Singapore
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan
Taiwan
Taiwanese
Tajikistan
Russian
Tibet
Tibetan (Bökyi lagda)
Thailand
Old Bangkok
Chiangmai
Thai
Ban Khor (Pasa kidd)
Vietnam
Vietnamese
Europe
Armenia
Armenian
Austria
Austrian
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani
Belgium
Flemish
French Belgian
United Kingdom
British
Croatia
Croatian
Denmark
Danish
Faroese (Teknmál)
Estonia
Estonian
Finland
Finnish
France
Ghardaia
French
Lyons
Germany
German
Greece
Greek
Hungary
Hungarian
Iceland
Icelandic
Ireland
Irish
Italy
Italian
Kosovo
Yugoslav (Kosovar)
Latvia
Latvian
Lithuania
Lithuanian
Moldova
Russian
Netherlands
Dutch
North Macedonia
Macedonian
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Norway
Norwegian
Poland
Polish
Portugal
Portuguese
Russia
Russian
Slovenia
Slovenian
Spain
Catalan
Spanish
Valencian
Sweden
Swedish
Switzerland
Swiss-German
Turkey
Central Taurus
Mardin
Turkish
Ukraine
Ukrainian
North and Central America
Plains Sign Talk
Belize
Belizean
Canada
American (ASL)
Black ASL
Protactile
Blackfoot
Cree
Ojibwa
Oneida
Maritime (MSL)
Quebec
Inuit (Atgangmuurniq)
Plateau
Cayman
Old Cayman
Costa Rica
Bribri
Brunca
Old Costa Rican
New Costa Rican
Cuba
Cuban
Greenland
Greenlandic (Ussersuataarneq)
Guatemala
Guatemalan
Mayan
Haiti
Haitian
Honduras
Honduran
Mexico
Albarradas
Chatino
Mayan
Mexican
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan
Panama
Chiriqui
Panamanian
El Salvador
Salvadoran
Old Salvadoran
United States
American (ASL)
Black ASL
Protactile
Blackfeet
Cree
Cheyenne
Ojibwa
Oneida
Keresan (Keresign)
Martha's Vineyard
Navajo
Navajo Family
Sandy River Valley
Henniker
Oceania
Australia
Auslan
Australian-Irish
Akitiri (Eltye eltyarrenke)
Far North Queensland Indigenous
Arrernte (Iltyeme iltyeme)
Warlpiri (Rdaka rdaka)
Manjiljarra
Warlmanpa
Warumungu (Warramunga)
Mudbura (Mudburra)
Ngada
Umpila
Far North Queensland
Western Desert
Western Torres Strait Islander
Yir Yoront
Yolŋu
Hawaii (USA)
Hawaiʻan (Haoilona ʻŌlelo)
New Zealand
New Zealand (NZSL)
Papua New Guinea
Enga
Kailge
Mehek
Mount Avejaha
Papua New Guinean (PNGSL)
Rossel Island
Sinasina
Wanib
Samoa and American Samoa
Samoan
South America
Argentina
Argentine (LSA)
Bolivia
Bolivian
Brazil
Brazilian (Libras)
Cena
Ka'apor
Chile
Chilean
Colombia
Colombian
Provisle
Ecuador
Ecuadorian
Paraguay
Paraguayan
Peru
Inmaculada
Peruvian
Sivia
Uruguay
Uruguayan
Venezuela
Venezuelan
International
International Sign
Makaton
Monastic
Signalong
ASL
Grammar
Idioms
Literature
Profanity
Name signs
Extinct languages
Chilmark
Diyari
Jaralde
Kalkutungu
Henniker Sign Language
Martha's Vineyard
Old French
Old Kent
Plateau Sign Language
Pitha Pitha
Sandy River Valley Sign Language
Warluwara
Linguistics
Grammar (ASL)
Bimodal bilingualism
Phonology (ASL)
Handshape / Location / Orientation / Movement / Expression
Mouthing
Nonmanual feature
Sign names
Fingerspelling
American
British (two-handed)
Catalan
Chilean
Esperanto
French
German
Hungarian
Irish
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Ukrainian
Portuguese
Writing
ASL-phabet
Hamburg Notation System
Stokoe notation
SignWriting
si5s
ASLwrite ()
Language contact
Contact sign
Initialized sign
Mouthing
Signed Oral Languages
Indian Signing System
Manually coded English
Manually coded language in South Africa
Manually Coded Malay
Paget Gorman Sign System
Signed Dutch
Signed French
Signed German
Signed Italian
Signed Japanese
Signed Polish
Signed Spanish
Signing Exact English
Signed Swedish
Others
Bilingual–bicultural education
Manually coded language
Media
Films (list)
Television shows (list)
Persons
Jabbar Baghtcheban
Jeanette Berglind
Pär Aron Borg
Thomas Braidwood
Laurent Clerc
Abbé de l'Épée
Roger Fouts
Valerie Sutton
Thomas Gallaudet
Abbé Sicard
William Stokoe
Pierre Pélissier
Organisations
Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
International Center on Deafness and the Arts
Mimics and Gesture Theatre
World Association of Sign Language Interpreters
Miscellaneous
Baby sign language
CHCI chimpanzee center (Washoe, Loulis)
Open Outcry
Legal recognition
U.S. Army hand and arm signals
Monastic sign languages
Tactile signing
Protactile
Tic-tac
^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. Conversely, ASL and BSL both originated in English-speaking countries but are not related to each other; ASL however is related to French Sign Language.
^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages.
^cItalics indicate extinct languages.
^Honduran Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
ethnicity. Honduran Spanish is considered a variety of Central American Spanish. The language of the Honduran Lencas is considered an extinct language. Because...
perhaps three hundred signlanguages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new signlanguages emerge frequently through...
the Honduran Army, Honduran Navy and Honduran Air Force. In 2017, Hondurassigned the UN treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Honduras is divided...
Harvard Divinity School Heroes del Silencio, a Spanish rock band HonduranSignLanguage This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting signlanguages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
Tactile signing is a common means of communication used by people with deafblindness. It is based on a signlanguage or another system of manual communication...
The lempira (/lɛmˈpɪrə/, sign: L, ISO 4217 code: HNL;Spanish pronunciation: [lemˈpiɾa]) is the currency of Honduras. It is subdivided into 100 centavos...
of Honduras (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras), consists of the Honduran Army, Honduran Navy and Honduran Air Force. The Armed Forces of Honduras were...
creole languages, pidgin languages, and signlanguages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
Bay Islands SignLanguage, also known as French Harbour SignLanguage, is an indigenous village signlanguage of Honduras. It started in the village of...
and in eastern Honduras. With around 150,000 speakers, Miskito is the most widely spoken of a family of languages of Nicaragua and Honduras that has come...
Honduran forests. The Honduran economy grew 4.8% in 2000, recovering from the Mitch-induced recession (−1.9%) of 1999. The Honduran maquiladora sector,...
continuing past the sign. In many countries, the sign is a red octagon with the word STOP, in either English or the national language of that particular...
pictorial signs or otherwise simplified and standardized their signs to overcome language barriers, and enhance traffic safety. Such pictorial signs use symbols...
other symbols instead of currency symbols. A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined...
fell in 1839. After that, the Honduran territory became an independent nation. Archaeology has demonstrated that Honduras has a multi-ethnic prehistory...
Refers to the Tjwao dialect See Zimbabwean signlanguages In the United States of America, English is the language of the Declaration of Independence, the...
English language and excludes indirect translations from other languages. A black triangle (within the standard down-arrow-shape of stop signs) was a symbol...
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the...
as the currency sign for the Albanian lek and the Honduran lempira. It was often used, especially in handwriting, as the currency sign for the Italian...
within striking distance of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa. The momentum of the advance did not last, however. The Honduran Air Force reacted by striking...
mark on the standard triangular sign (Unicode U+26A0 ⚠ WARNING SIGN) with an auxiliary sign below in the local language identifying the hazard, obstacle...
only 4 in 1992, due to language shift to English that engendered Rama Cay Creole. Nicaraguan SignLanguage Nicaraguan SignLanguage has been of particular...
native language is Argentine SignLanguage (LSA), which is signed by deaf communities. It emerged in 1885. After the above-mentioned languages German...
established residence in Honduras and chose Honduran nationality. Keeping the preferential clause for foreign men married to Honduran women, the Constitutions...