Slovak Sign Language | |
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Native to | Slovakia |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2014) [1] |
French Sign
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ISO 639-3 |
svk |
Glottolog |
slov1263 |
The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign. [2]
Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to Czech Sign Language.[ citation needed]
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