Armenian Sign Language

Summary

Armenian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Armenia.

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

Classification edit

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

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Armenian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  2. ^ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]