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Lithuanian Sign Language
LGK
Native to
Lithuania
Native speakers
8,000 (2021)[1]
Language family
influenced by Russian Sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3
lls
Glottolog
lith1236
Lithuanian Sign Language (Lithuanian: Lietuvių gestų kalba, LGK) is the national sign language used in Lithuania, with several regional variants. Very little is known about its history before 1945. From 1945 to 1990 it was used along with Russian Sign Language and the two sign languages became very similar. Russian lip-patterns used with some LGK signs indicate that the sign may have been originally borrowed from Russian Sign Language. When Lithuania became independent, its contacts with Russian Sign Language were almost cut off, and now it's developing as an independent language, with some influence from international signs.
In 1995, LGK was granted legal recognition as the native language of the Deaf people in Lithuania as part of the Law on the State Language of the Republic of Lithuania. Linguistic research of LGK started in 1996. Since then, a Lithuanian Sign Language Dictionary (based on traditional word to sign principle) was published in 5 volumes (including about 3000 signs), along with some thematic vocabularies and bilingual texts in LGK and Lithuanian (including Adam's book). Now work is being done on an LGK database and sign language teaching materials for parents of deaf children, teachers teaching deaf students and sign language interpreters.[2]
^Lithuanian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Zabarskaitė, Jolanta (2019). "3. The Lithuanian Hearth Language Museum". Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN 9780429958427. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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