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Slovak Sign Language

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.

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Slovak Sign Language
Slovenský posunkový jazyk
Native toSlovakia
Native speakers
15,000 (2014)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3svk
Glottologslov1263

The Slovak Sign Language (Slovak: Slovenský posunkový jazyk, SPJ) 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.

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References

  1. Slovak Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Bickford, 2005. The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe