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Armenian Sign Language

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Armenian Sign Language
Հայերեն ժեստերի լեզու
Native toArmenia, Artsakh
Signers3,200–16,000 (2008–2021)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3aen
Glottologarme1259

Armenian Sign Language (Armenian: Հայերեն ժեստերի լեզու, romanizedHayeren zhesteri lezu) is the deaf sign language of Armenia.

Classification

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Wittmann (1991)[2] posits that ArSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Armenian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ 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