Georgian Sign Language

Georgian Sign Language
Native to Georgia
Russian Sign Language?[1]
  • Georgian Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog geor1254[1]

Georgian Sign Language (Georgian: ქართული ჟესტური ენა) is the national sign language of the deaf in the country of Georgia.[2][3]

Fingerspelling originally used an alphabet based on the Russian manual alphabet. However, in 2012 a new Mkhedruli-based manual alphabet was developed with the support of the Union of the Deaf of Georgia.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Georgian Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Final workshop in Georgian Sign Language, 2011, Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia
  3. N. Kitesashvili, n.d., Basic Lexicon of Georgian Sign Language
  4. Tamar Makharoblidze, 2013, The Georgian Dactyl Alphabet Disability Studies Quarterly, 33:3
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