Persian Sign Language

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Persian Sign Language
Native to Iran
Native speakers
(no data)[1]
unknown
Language codes
ISO 639-3 psc
Glottolog pers1244[2]

Persian Sign Language is the sign language used by Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Iran. It is a true sign language, unlike the Baghcheban phonetic hand alphabet, which is a form of cued speech.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Persian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Persian Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 

Scholarly literature[edit]

  • Barkoky, Alaa, and Nasrollah M. Charkari. Static hand gesture recognition of Persian sign numbers using thinning method. Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on. IEEE, 2011.
  • Karami, Ali, Bahman Zanj, and Azadeh Kiani Sarkaleh. Persian sign language (PSL) recognition using wavelet transform and neural networks. Expert Systems with Applications 38.3 (2011): 2661-2667.

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