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
- ↑ Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.
| Official languages | |
|---|---|
| Indigenous languages | |
| Spanish varieties | |
| Sign languages | |
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