Ecuadorian Sign Language

{{Short description|Deaf sign language of Ecuador}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Ecuadorian Sign Language

|states=Ecuador

|speakers= 50,000

|date=2021

|ref=e25

|familycolor = sign language

|family=Andean?

|iso3=ecs

|glotto=ecua1243

|glottorefname=Ecuadorian Sign Language

}}

Ecuadorian Sign Language ({{Langx|es|Lengua de señas ecuatoriana}} or de Ecuador, LSEC) is the sign language of Ecuador.

Classification

Clark notes that Peruvian, Bolivian, Ecuadorian and Colombian sign languages "have significant lexical similarities to each other" and "contain a certain degree of lexical influence from ASL" as well, at least going by the forms in national dictionaries.[http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/Clark_Brenda-Dissertation-Draft.pdf Clark Brenda dissertation]University of Hawaiʻi {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008073506/http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/Clark_Brenda-Dissertation-Draft.pdf |date=2021-10-08 }} Chilean and Argentinian share these traits, though to a lesser extent.

References

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Category:Sign language isolates

Category:Language isolates of South America

Category:Languages of Ecuador