Concept information
Preferred term
iseItalian Sign Language
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Italian Sign Language or ISL (Lingua dei Segni Italiana, or LIS) is the visual language employed by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until recently, most of the studies about Italian Sign Language have dealt with its phonology and vocabulary. According to the European Union for the Deaf, the majority of the 60,000 Deaf use ISL.
ISO 639-3 code
- ise
Notation
- ise
In other languages
-
Lingua dei segni italiana
Italian
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ise
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