German Sign Language family

The German Sign Language family is a language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language.^[1]

German Sign Language
Geographic distribution	Europe
Linguistic classification	One of the world's sign language families
Subdivisions	German Sign Polish Sign Israeli Sign
Language codes
Glottolog	dgsi1234

Anderson (1979) suggested that Swedish Sign, German Sign and British Sign share one origin in a "North-West European" sign language.^[2]

See also

• Swiss German Sign Language