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Polish Sign Language

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Native to
  
Poland

ISO 639-3
  
pso

Native speakers
  
50,000 (2014)

Glottolog
  
poli1259

Language family
  
German Sign Polish Sign Language

Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) is the language of the Deaf community in Poland. Its lexicon and grammar are distinct from the Polish language, although there is a manually coded version of Polish known as System Językowo-Migowy (SJM, or Signed Polish), which is often used by interpreters on television and by teachers in schools.

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Manual alphabet

Polish Sign Language uses a one-handed manual alphabet based on the alphabet used in Old French Sign Language. However, the language itself derives from German Sign Language.

Scholarly literature

  • Fabian, Piotr, and Jarosław Francik. "Synthesis and presentation of the Polish sign language gestures." 1st International Conf. on Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Universities. 2001.
  • Farris, M. A. Sign language research and polish sign language. Lingua Posnaniensis 36 (1994): 13-36.
  • Oszust, Mariusz, and Marian Wysocki. Polish sign language words recognition with kinect. Human System Interaction (HSI), 2013 The 6th International Conference on. IEEE, 2013.

    • References

    Polish Sign Language Wikipedia
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