Language family language isolate? Glottolog ecua1243 | Native speakers 230,000 (2011) ISO 639-3 ecs | |
Ecuadorian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Ecuador.
Classification
Wittmann (1991) posits that ESL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.
References
Ecuadorian Sign Language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA