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Armenian Sign Language
Native to Armenia, Artsakh
Signers3,200–16,000 (2008–2021) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aen
Glottolog arme1259

Armenian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Armenia.

Classification

Wittmann (1991) [2] posits that ArSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language).

See also

References

  1. ^ Armenian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88. [1]