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Sign languages

Languages of Deaf communities, expressed with the hands, face and body rather than sound. Glottolog groups them separately from spoken languages; they are not signed versions of the spoken languages of their countries – South African and New Zealand Sign Languages have their own grammar.

7 languages on this site · c. – speakers in total (sum of estimates, bilingual people counted more than once) · the main official language in 0 countries.

No separate branch 7

  1. Austrian Sign Language –
  2. Filipino Sign Language –
  3. Kenyan Sign Language –
  4. Lesotho Sign Language –
  5. New Zealand Sign Language –
  6. South African Sign Language –
  7. Zimbabwe Sign Language –

Family tree

Subgroups according to Glottolog with the languages that are in the atlas – click to expand.

L1 Sign Language 7
LSFic 2
Central European Sign › Nuclear Central European Sign 1
ASLic 1
BSLic 3
South African Sign 2
BANZSL 1

Classification: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Branches are selected nodes of the Glottolog tree.