Slovak Sign Language | |
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Native to | Slovakia |
Native speakers
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15,000 (2014) |
French Sign
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | slov1263 |
The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign.
Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to Czech Sign Language.