Iraqi Sign Language
لغة الإشارة العراقية
Native toIraq
Arab sign-language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologiraq1246

Iraqi Sign Language (Arabic: لغة الإشارة العراقية, romanized: luḡa al-išāra al-ʿIrāqiyya) is the deaf sign language of Iraq. It appears to be close to Levantine Arabic Sign Language the common sign language of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Jordan.[1] It is taught in seven schools or deaf associations in the capital of Baghdad and 5 other cities.[2]

In research done on Jordanian Sign Language, word lists from Baghdad were collected and compared to sign language from five other countries. It was found to have over 50% lexical similarities with the sign languages of Jordan and Syria[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Zeshan, Ulrike (2011-05-30), "Sign Languages", Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill, retrieved 2022-10-17
  2. ↑ "Demographic Information On Sign Languages Around the World: Field Survey Notes" (PDF). SIL International. 2007–021.
  3. ↑ Hendriks, Hermina Berndina. "Jordanian Sign Language: Aspects of grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective" (PDF). LOT.
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