Hungarian Sign Language

Hungarian Sign Language is the sign language of deaf people in Hungary. There is historical evidence that Hungarian and Austrian Sign Language are related, but Bickford (2005) found that Hungarian, Slovak, and Czech Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign rather than with Austrian.[3]

Hungarian Sign Language
Magyar Jelnyelv
Native to	Hungary
Region	Throughout Hungary, with possibly a few signers in western Romania
Native speakers	9,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	French Sign Austro-Hungarian Sign Hungarian Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hsh
Glottolog	hung1263[2]

In November 2009 the Hungarian Parliament unanimously passed an act on Hungarian Sign Language and the protection of Hungarian Sign Language.

The National Association of the Hungarian Deaf is called SINOSZ.

References

1. Hungarian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hungarian Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Bickford, 2005. The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe

External links

• Dictionary of Hungarian Sign Language (with English Translation)
• Article about Hallatlan Foundation, the author of the Dictionary, in Polish. Hallatlan Foundation works on inclusion of people with hearing disability, their access to information and popularization of sign language.