Ecuadorian Sign Language

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Ecuadorian Sign Language
Native to Ecuador
Native speakers
230,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ecs
Glottolog ecua1243[2]

Ecuadorian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Ecuador.

Classification

Wittmann (1991)[3] posits that ESL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language), though one developed through stimulus diffusion from an existing sign language, likely French Sign Language.

References

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  1. Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  3. Wittmann, Henri (1991). "Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement." Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10:1.215–88.[1]