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Italian Sign Language
| Italian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Lingua dei Segni Italiana | |
| Region | Italy, San Marino, Switzerland[1] |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2013)[2] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ise – inclusive codeIndividual code: slf – Swiss-Italian SL |
| Glottolog | ital1288 |
| ELP | Swiss-Italian Sign Language |
Italian Sign Language (Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used 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 the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its vocabulary. According to the European Union for the Deaf, the majority of the 60,000–90,000 Deaf people in Italy use LIS.
- ^ Pizzuto, Elena; Corazza, Serena (1996). "Noun morphology in Italian Sign Language (LIS)". Lingua. 98 (1–3): 169–196. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(95)00037-2.
- ^ EUD: Italy Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
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