Slovak Sign Language

The Slovak Sign Language (Slovak: Slovenský posunkový jazyk, SPJ) is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign.^[2]

Slovak Sign Language
Slovenský posunkový jazyk
Native to	Slovakia
Native speakers	15,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	French Sign Austro-Hungarian Sign Slovak Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	svk
Glottolog	slov1263

Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to Czech Sign Language.^{[citation needed]}