Peruvian Sign Language

Peruvian Sign Language
Native to Peru
Language codes
ISO 639-3 prl
Glottolog peru1235[1]

Peruvian Sign Language (PRL) is the deaf sign language of Peru. It is used primarily outside the classroom.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[2] posits that PRL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Peruvian Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.
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