Native to Slovakia ISO 639-3 svk | Native speakers 15,000 (2014) Glottolog slov1263 | |
Language family French Sign
Austro-Hungarian Sign
Slovak Sign Language | ||
The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign.
Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to Czech Sign Language.
References
Slovak Sign Language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA