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(Text) CC BY-SA