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French Sign Language (French: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to Ethnologue , it has 100,000 native signers.
The French Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language. The LSF family descends from Old French Sign Language (VLSF), which developed among the deaf community in Paris.
Old French Sign Language (influenced by l'Epée c. 1760–89) Belgian Sign Language (c. 1790–2000) Austro-Hungarian Sign Language (c. 1780–1920) American Sign Language (c. 1820–present) French Sign Language (c. 1790–present) French Belgian Sign Language (c. 1970–present) Flemish Sign Language (c. 1970–present) Dutch Sign Language (c ...
The influence of French Sign Language (LSF) on ASL is readily apparent; for example, it has been found that about 58% of signs in modern ASL are cognate to Old French Sign Language signs. [ 7 ] : 7 [ 8 ] : 14 However, that is far less than the standard 80% measure used to determine whether related languages are actually dialects .
In American Sign Language, folks are often given a “name sign” or nickname to identify them quickly, without having to spell out each letter of a full name.
The large number of initialized signs in ASL and French Sign Language is partly a legacy of Abbé de l'Épée's system of Methodical Sign (les signes méthodiques), in which the handshapes of most signs were changed to correspond to the initial letter of their translation in the local oral language, and (in the case of ASL) partly a more recent ...
Signed French (français signé) is any of at least three manually coded forms of French that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to French word order or grammar. In France, Signed French uses the signs of French Sign Language ; the Belgium system uses the signs of French Belgian Sign Language , and in Canada the signs of Quebec ...
The French manual alphabet is an alphabet used for French Sign Language (LSF), both to distinguish LSF words and to sign French words in LSF. The alphabet has the following letters: A