Greek Sign Language

Greek Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Native to	Greece
Native speakers	Estimates run from 6,000 to 60,000 (2014); Differences may reflect degree of fluency.
Language family	French Sign FSL–ASL mix Greek Sign Language; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gss
Glottolog	gree1271

Greek Sign Language (Greek: Ελληνική νοηματική γλώσσα) is the sign language of the Greek deaf community. It has been legally recognised as the official language of the Deaf Community in Greece by Law 2817 in 2000.

The Greek Sign Language is estimated to be used by about 40,600 signers in 1986.^[2]

Greek SL formed in the 1950s when American Sign Language and French Sign Language came together, with admixture from indigenous sign.

References

^ Greek Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Eleni Efthimiou; Stavroula-Evita Fotinea. "An Environment for Deaf Accessibility to Educational Content" (PDF). Proceedings of the First International Conference in Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility April 12 – 14, 2007, Hammamet – TUNISIA. Tynisia: Mohamed JEMNI (editor). Retrieved 2010-03-18.

Hatzopoulou, Marianna. 2008. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language: From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs. Doctoral dissertation, Stockholm University. Online access

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Official language	Greek
Greek varieties	Cretan Cappadocian Pontic Maniot Romano-Greek Tsakonian Yevanic
Sign languages	Greek Sign Language
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