Danish Sign Language family

{{Short description|Sub-language family of sign languages}}

{{Infobox language family

|name = Danish Sign Language Family

|altname = West Scandinavian Sign

|ethnicity = Diverse
Deaf populations

|region = Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Madagascar

|familycolor = sign language

|fam1 = French Sign

|child1 = Danish Sign Language

|child2 = Norwegian Sign Language & Malagasy Sign Language

|child3 = Icelandic Sign Language

|glotto = west2993

|glottoname = West Scandinavian Sign

}}

The Danish Sign Language family comprises three languages: Danish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language (including Malagasy Sign Language) and Icelandic Sign Language. It itself is a sub-language family within the larger French Sign Language family.{{cite book |last1=Bergman |first1=Brita |author-link1= Brita Bergman |last2=Engberg-Pedersen |first2=Elisabeth |author-link2= Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen |editor1-last=Brentari |editor1-first=Diane |editor-link=Diane Brentari |title=Sign Languages |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521883702 |pages=74–94 |chapter=Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511712203}}

{{Harvp|Wittmann|1991}} places Danish Sign in the French Sign Language family, although being also influenced by local pidgin Scandinavian Sign, which also influenced Swedish sign.

Ethnologue reports that Danish Sign Language is largely mutually intelligible with Swedish Sign, though Wittmann places DSL in the French Sign Language family and Swedish Sign in the British Sign Language family.{{Cite news |title=Swedish Sign Language |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/swl |access-date=2017-09-06 |work=Ethnologue}}

{{Danish Sign Language family tree}}