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Slovak Sign Language

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Slovak Sign Language
Slovakian Sign
Native toSlovakia
Native speakers
[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3svk

The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign.[2]

Despite the similarity of their oral languages, the sign languages of Slovakia and the Czech Republic are not particularly close.

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