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Preferred term

rslRussian Sign Language  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Russian Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Russia. It has a grammar unlike the (spoken or written) Russian language, with much stricter word order and word formation rules. Russian sign language belongs to a family of French sign language and is similar to American sign language. Vocabulary from Austrian sign language also heavily influences Russian sign language.

ISO 639-3 code

  • rsl

Notation

  • rsl

URI

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

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