Nicaraguan Sign Language
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sign language used in Nicaragua
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Within Vinony's link graph, Nicaraguan Sign Language is referenced by 333 other articles, and connects out to Varieties of American Sign Language, Hawaiʻi Sign Language and fingerspelling.
It sits within the topics 1980s establishments in Nicaragua, Creoles of the Americas and Language articles citing Ethnologue 18.
Its subject is documented across 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Nicaragua
- Region
- The Managua region and spreading throughout the country
- Native speakers
- 3,000 (1997)
- Language family
- Deaf-community sign language : developed as a creole language from home and idioglossic sign, with the addition of an ASL -influenced manual alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- ncs
- Glottolog
- nica1238
- Elp
- Nicaraguan Sign Language
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- sign language
- Country
- Nicaragua
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- indigenous to
- Managua Department
- inception
- 1980-00-00
- influenced by
- home sign
- native label
- Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua
- linguistic typology
- language isolate
- Commons category
- Nicaraguan Sign Language
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Spanish: Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a sign language developed by deaf children in several schools in Nicaragua.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nicaraguan Sign Language” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.