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Sign language of the Levant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Levantine Arabic Sign Language is the sign language used by Deaf and hearing-impaired people of the area known as Bilad al-Sham or the Levant, comprising Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Although there are significant differences in vocabulary between the four states, this is not much greater than regional differences within the states. Grammar is quite uniform and mutual intelligibility is high, indicating that they are dialects of a single language.[2]
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (April 2013) |
Levantine Sign Language | |
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Syro-Palestinian Sign Language | |
لغة الإشارة العربية الشرقية | |
Region | Levant/Bilad al-Sham |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2021)[1] |
Arab sign-language family
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | jos (Jordanian Sign Language) |
Glottolog | jord1238 Levantine Arabic SL |
The language typically goes by the name of the country, as so:
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