Polish Sign Language

Polish Sign Language
Polish Sign Language
Polski Język Migowy
Native to	Poland
Native speakers	50,000 (2014)
Language family	German Sign Polish Sign Language;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pso
Glottolog	poli1259

Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) is the language of the Deaf community in Poland. Its lexicon and grammar are distinct from the Polish language, although there is a manually coded version of Polish known as System Językowo-Migowy (SJM, or Signed Polish), which is often used by interpreters on television and by teachers in schools.

Manual alphabet

Polish Sign Language uses a one-handed manual alphabet based on the alphabet used in Old French Sign Language. However, the language itself derives from German Sign Language.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Polish Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Scholarly literature

Fabian, Piotr, and Jarosław Francik. "Synthesis and presentation of the Polish sign language gestures." 1st International Conf. on Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Universities. 2001.
Farris, M. A. Sign language research and Polish sign language. Lingua Posnaniensis 36 (1994): 13-36.
Oszust, Mariusz, and Marian Wysocki. Polish sign language words recognition with kinect. Human System Interaction (HSI), 2013 The 6th International Conference on. IEEE, 2013.