German Sign Language family

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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]

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German Sign Language
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Europe
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's sign language families
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Anderson (1979) suggested that Swedish Sign, German Sign and British Sign share one origin in a "North-West European" sign language.[2]

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