Greek Sign Language

Greek Sign Language
Native to	Greece
Native speakers	Estimates run from 6,000 to 60,000 (2014)[1] Differences may reflect degree of fluency.
Language family	French Sign FSL–ASL mix Greek Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gss
Glottolog	gree1271[2]

Greek Sign Language (Greek: Ελληνική νοηματική γλώσσα) is the sign language of the Greek deaf community. It has been legally recognised as the official language of the Deaf Community in Greece by Law 2817 in 2000.

The Greek Sign Language is estimated to be used by about 40,600 signers in 1986.^[3]

Greek SL formed in the 1950s when American Sign Language and French Sign Language came together, with admixture from indigenous sign.

References

1. Greek Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Greek Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Eleni Efthimiou; Stavroula-Evita Fotinea. "An Environment for Deaf Accessibility to Educational Content" (PDF). Proceeding of the First International Conference in Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility April 12 – 14, 2007, Hammamet – TUNISIA. Tynisia: Mohamed JEMNI (editor). Retrieved 2010-03-18.

Relevant literature

• Hatzopoulou, Marianna. 2008. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language: From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs. Doctoral dissertation, Stockholm University. Online access

External links

• WikiSigns.org - Wiki GSL dictionary