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Ecuadorian Sign Language

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Native to
  
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


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