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As Paris had been the largest city in France for hundreds of years (and with 565,000 inhabitants in 1750), French Sign Language is a good candidate for one of the oldest sign languages in Europe. Old French Sign Language is not related to Old French, which was spoken from roughly 1000 to 1300.
French Sign Language (French: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to Ethnologue , it has 100,000 native signers.
The French Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language. The LSF family descends from Old French Sign Language (VLSF), which developed among the deaf community in Paris.
Old French Sign Language (influenced by l'Epée c. 1760–89) Belgian Sign Language (c. 1790–2000) Austro-Hungarian Sign Language (c. 1780–1920) American Sign Language (c. 1820–present) French Sign Language (c. 1790–present) French Belgian Sign Language (c. 1970–present) Flemish Sign Language (c. 1970–present) Dutch Sign Language (c ...
Icelandic Sign Language: French:Danish "Íslenskt Táknmál" Irish Sign Language: French "Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann" (ISL/ISG and TCÉ) Italian Sign Language: French "Lingua dei Segni Italiana" (LIS) Kosovar Sign Language: French:Austro-Hungarian:Yugoslav "Gjuha e Shenjave Kosovare" (GjShK) Latvian Sign Language: French "Latviešu ...
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He defined his own manual alphabet and synthesized signs with French grammar. With consistent use among the community these two sources evolved into the French Sign Language. [10] American Sign Language is heavily based on French Sign Language due to the presence of teachers from France in the first American schools for the deaf.
The French manual alphabet is an alphabet used for French Sign Language (LSF), both to distinguish LSF words and to sign French words in LSF. The alphabet has the following letters: A