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Japanese Sign Language family information


Japanese Sign Language
Geographic
distribution
East Asia
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's sign language families
Subdivisions
  • Japanese Sign
  • Korean Sign?
  • Taiwanese Sign
Glottologjsli1234

The Japanese Sign Language (JSL) family is a language family of three sign languages:[1]

  • Japanese Sign Language (JSL) family
    • Japanese Sign Language (JSL)
    • Korean Sign Language (KSL)
    • Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL)

There is little difficulty in communication across the three languages.[2]

  1. ^ Fischer, Susan D. et al. (2010). "Variation in East Asian Sign Language Structures" in Sign Languages, p. 499 at Google Books
  2. ^ Fischer, "Variation," p. 501 at Google Books

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