Armenian Sign Language

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

Armenian Sign Language (Armenian: Հայերեն ժեստերի լեզու, romanized: Hayeren zhesteri lezu) is the deaf sign language of Armenia.[2]

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that ArSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Armenian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Institute, Armenian. "Armenian Sign Language: a hidden culture". ARMENOPOLE. Retrieved 2026-08-13.
  3. ↑ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88. Archived 2019-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
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