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.[2]

Slovak Sign Language
Native toSlovakia
Native speakers
15,000 (2014)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3svk
Glottologslov1263

Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to Czech Sign Language.

References

  1. Slovak Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Bickford, 2005. The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe


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