Ecuadorian Sign Language

Ecuadorian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Ecuador.

Ecuadorian Sign Language
Native toEcuador
Native speakers
unknown; 230,000 deaf (2011)[1]
Andean?
Language codes
ISO 639-3ecs
Glottologecua1243[2]

Classification

Clark[3] 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. Chilean and Argentinian share these traits, though to a lesser extent.

gollark: I'm trying to make all gollarious, but this is hard.
gollark: <@331320482047721472> maybe-tit-for-tat-or-grudger is doing RANDOMNESS. Is this not impure and thus illegal?
gollark: Maybe gollariosity could just look ONE turn into the future.
gollark: Against tit-for-tat, say, it would realize that it got a better score if it coooöoperated.
gollark: The opponent doesn't ALWAYS have that however.

References

  1. Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ecuadorian Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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