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Armenian Sign Language
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| Armenian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Հայերեն ժեստերի լեզու | |
| Native to | Armenia, Artsakh |
| Signers | 3,200–16,000 (2008–2021)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aen |
| Glottolog | arme1259 |
Armenian Sign Language (Armenian: Հայերեն ժեստերի լեզու, romanized: Hayeren zhesteri lezu) is the deaf sign language of Armenia.
Classification
[edit]Wittmann (1991)[2] posits that ArSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language).
See also
[edit]
- Armenian language
- Caucasian Sign Language
- Deafness
- Languages of Armenia
- Languages of Europe
- List of sign languages
- Sign language
References
[edit]- ^ Armenian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1] Archived 2019-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
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