Tunisian Sign Language

Tunisian Sign Language
Native toTunisia
Native speakers
21,000 (2008)[1]
French Sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3tse
Glottologtuni1249

Tunisian Sign Language (Arabic: لغة الإشارة التونسية, romanizedLughat al-Ishārah al-Tūnisīyah; French: Langue des signes tunisienne) is the sign language used by deaf people in Tunisia. It derives from Italian Sign Language, mixed with indigenous sign.

It is not clear how the language of the Burj as-Salh deaf village relates to indigenous sign and TSL.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Tunisian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "8 Deaf Villages Around the World and How They Came to be". 6 November 2016.