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Peruvian Sign Language

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Native to
  
Peru

ISO 639-3
  
prl

Language family
  
language isolate?

Glottolog
  
peru1235

Peruvian Sign Language (PRL) is the deaf sign language of Peru. It is used primarily outside the classroom.

Classification

Wittmann (1991) posits that PRL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.

References

Peruvian Sign Language Wikipedia