French Belgian Sign Language

French Belgian Sign Language
Langue des signes de Belgique francophone (LSFB)
Native to French Community of Belgium
Native speakers
4,000 (2014)[1]
Lyons Sign?
French Sign?
  • Belgian Sign Language

    • French Belgian Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sfb
Glottolog lang1248[2]

The French Belgian Sign Language (French: Langue des signes de Belgique francophone; LSFB) is the deaf sign language of the French Community of Belgium, a country in Western Europe. It and Flemish Sign Language are varieties of the same language.

Legal recognition

By decree of 22 October 2003, the Parliament of the French Community recognised the Sign Language of French-speaking Belgium.[3]

See also

References

  1. French Belgian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Langue des signes de Belgique Francophone". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Décret relatif à la reconnaissance de la langue des signes

External links

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