Guatemalan Sign Language

Guatelmalan Sign Language
Lenguaje de señas guatemalteco
Native to Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gsm
Glottolog guat1249[1]

Guatemalan Sign Language is the national deaf sign language used in Guatemala. The first dictionary was published in 2000. It is distinct from the sign languages used in Mexico and other neighboring Spanish speaking countries, and from Highland Maya Sign Language, which is used among K'iche' Maya of rural Guatemala.

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References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guatemalan Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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