Region Levant | ||
Language family Arab Sign Language family
Iraqi–Levantine?
Levantine Arabic Sign Language Dialects Jordanian Sign Language (LIU)
Palestinian Sign Language
Syrian Sign Language
Lebanese Sign Language ISO 639-3 jos (Jordanian Sign Language) Glottolog None
jord1238 (Jordanian SL) | ||
Levantine Arabic Sign Language, also known as Syro-Palestinian Sign Language, is the deaf sign language of Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Although there are significant differences in vocabulary between the four states, this is not much greater than regional differences within the states, their grammar is quite uniform, and mutual intelligibility is high, indicating that they are dialects of a single language (Hendriks 2008).
The language typically goes by the name of the country, as so:
References
Levantine Arabic Sign Language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA