Ecuadorian Sign Language
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| Ecuadorian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ecuador |
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Native speakers
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230,000 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ecs |
| Glottolog | ecua1243[2] |
Ecuadorian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Ecuador.
Classification[edit]
Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that ESL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.
References[edit]
- ^ Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ecuadorian Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]
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