German Sign Language family

{{Short description|European sign language family}}

{{Infobox language family

|name = German Sign Language

|region = Europe

|familycolor = Sign

|family = One of the world's sign language families

|child1=German Sign

|child2=Polish Sign

|child3=Israeli Sign

|glotto=dgsi1234

|glottorefname=DGSic

}}

The German Sign Language family is a language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language.Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[http://www.nou-la.org/ling/1991a-class.pdf]

Anderson (1979) suggested that Swedish Sign, German Sign and British Sign share one origin in a "North-West European" sign language.{{Cite book |last=Lucas |first=Ceil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxpuT_s8AkEC&q=Swedish&pg=PA6 |title=The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages |date=2001-10-04 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-79474-9 |language=en}}