Yugoslav Sign Language
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The deaf sign language of the nations of the former Yugoslavia, known variously as Croatian Sign Language (Hrvatski znakovni jezik, HZJ), Serbian Sign Language, Slovenian Sign Language, or Yugoslav Sign Language (YSL), got its start when children were sent to schools for the deaf in Austro-Hungary in the early 19th century.[3] The first two local schools opened in 1840 in Slovenia and in 1885 in Croatia.
Dialectical distinctions remain between Slovene, Croatian, and Serbian sign language, with separate (as well as unified) dictionaries being published. These varieties are reported to be mutually intelligible, but the actual amount of variation, and the degree to which the varieties should be considered one language or separate languages, has not been systematically assessed; nor is much known about the sign language situation in other Balkan states.[4]
A two-handed manual alphabet is in widespread use; a one-handed alphabet based on the international manual alphabet, though less commonly used, has official status.[3]
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the deaf have the same language rights with sign language that the hearing do with oral language. Interpreters must be provided between sign and Serbo-Croatian for deaf people dealing with government bodies, and government television broadcasts must be translated into sign language. A Commission for the Sign Language is composed of members representing education, linguistics/pedogogy, and the three constituent nations of Bosnia.[5] By law, Croatian Radiotelevision is to promote the translation of programs into sign language.[6]
See also
- Macedonian Sign Language (identity unclear)
References
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- (Croatian) Dictionary of Croatian Sign Language
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- ↑ Yugoslav Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Croatian SL at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 van Cleve, John V. 1987. Gallaudet encyclopedia of Deaf people and deafness. Vol. 3, pp. 116-118. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
- ↑ Bickford, J. Albert. 2005. The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe, pp. 15-16.
- ↑ The right to sign language in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- ↑ Zakon o Hrvatskoj Radioteleviziji
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