Danish Sign Language family explained

Danish Sign Language Family
Also Known As:West Scandinavian Sign
Ethnicity:Diverse
Deaf populations
Region:Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Madagascar
Familycolor:sign language
Fam1:French Sign
Child1:Danish Sign Language
Child2:Norwegian Sign Language & Malagasy Sign Language
Child3:Icelandic Sign Language
Glotto:west2993
Glottoname:West Scandinavian Sign

The Danish Sign Language family comprises three languages: Danish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language (including Malagasy Sign Language) and Icelandic Sign Language. It itself is a sub-language family within the larger French Sign Language family.[1]

places Danish Sign in the French Sign Language family, although being also influenced by local pidgin Scandinavian Sign, which also influenced Swedish sign.

Ethnologue reports that Danish Sign Language is largely mutually intelligible with Swedish Sign, though Wittmann places DSL in the French Sign Language family and Swedish Sign in the British Sign Language family.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Bergman . Brita . Brita Bergman . Engberg-Pedersen . Elisabeth . Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen . Brentari . Diane . Diane Brentari . Sign Languages . 2010 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 978-0521883702 . 74–94 . Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries . 10.1017/CBO9780511712203.
  2. News: Swedish Sign Language . 2017-09-06 . Ethnologue.