Ecuadorian Sign Language

Ecuadorian Sign Language
Native to Ecuador
Native speakers
230,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ecs
Glottolog ecua1243[2]

Ecuadorian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Ecuador.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that ESL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.

References

  1. Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ecuadorian Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.
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