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Preferred term

ilsInternational Sign  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • International Sign (IS) (also Gestuno, International Sign Language (ISL), International Sign Pidgin and International Gesture (IG) ) is an international auxiliary language sometimes used at international meetings such as the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) congress, events such as the Deaflympics, and informally when travelling and socialising. It can be seen as a kind of pidgin sign language, which is not as conventionalised or complex as natural sign languages and has a limited lexicon.

ISO 639-3 code

  • ils

Notation

  • ils

In other languages

  • Langue des signes internationale

    French

  • Gestuno

    German

  • Portuguese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ils

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