Iraqi Sign Language
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| Iraqi Sign Language | |
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| لغة الإشارة العراقية | |
| Native to | Iraq |
Arab sign-language family
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | iraq1246 |
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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]
Related Sign Languages
[edit | edit source]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]
See also
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