Peruvian Sign Language
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Peruvian Sign Language | |
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Native to | Peru |
Native speakers
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | prl |
Glottolog | peru1235 [2] |
Peruvian Sign Language (PRL) is the deaf sign language of Peru. It is used primarily outside the classroom.
Classification[edit]
Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that PRL 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]
- ^ Peruvian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Peruvian Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ 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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