Tunisian Sign Language (Arabic: لغة الإشارة التونسية, romanized: Lughat al-Ishārah al-Tūnisīyah; French: Langue des signes tunisienne) is the sign language used by deaf people in Tunisia. It derives from Italian Sign Language, mixed with indigenous sign.
| Tunisian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Tunisia |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2008)[1] |
French Sign
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tse |
| Glottolog | tuni1249 |
It is not clear how the language of the Burj as-Salh deaf village relates to indigenous sign and TSL.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Tunisian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "8 Deaf Villages Around the World and How They Came to be". 6 November 2016.
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