Concept information
Preferred term
fseFinnish Sign Language
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Finnish Sign Language (suomalainen viittomakieli in Finnish) is the sign language most commonly used in Finland. There are 5000 (estimate) Finnish deaf who have Finnish Sign Language as a mother tongue. Linguistically Finnish Sign Language is closest to Swedish Sign Language, from which it began to separate as an independent language in the middle of the 19th century.
ISO 639-3 code
- fse
Notation
- fse
In other languages
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Lingua dei segni finlandese
Italian
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Portuguese
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fse
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