The family of British spoken language ( English BANZSL , English British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language ) is a family of sign languages , including Australian , British , Northern Irish New Zealand , and seaside South African languages, which are often regarded as its dialects. The term "BANZSL" was created by Trevor Johnson ( born Trevor Johnston ) and Adam Schembri ( born Adam Schembri ) .
British Sign Language Family | |
|---|---|
| Taxon | family |
| Homeland | Great Britain |
| Status | generally accepted |
| Classification | |
| Category | sign languages |
| sign language family | |
| Composition | |
| AUSL , BSL , NISL NZSL , MSL SASL | |
| Match percentage | 98 |
| Language group codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-5 | - |
All languages in the family originate from the language of the 19th century British Deaf.
American and British sign languages are not related and mutually incomprehensible, although about a third of the gestures are common.
In Australian, British and New Zealand sign languages, 82% of the words from Swadesh’s list are identical, and when cognates are counted, the percentage of matches increases to 98.
[1] considers descendant of British sign language, but there are also data according to which Swedish sign language is an isolate [2] .
Composition
- British Sign Language:
- Australian Sign Language (1860, influenced by Amslena and Irish Sign Language);
- New Zealand Sign Language (1800s);
- Northern Irish Sign Language (19th century, influenced by Amslena and Irish Sign Language );
- South African Sign Language (1846-1811);
- seaside sign language;
- ? Swedish Sign Language Family (1800):
- Portuguese Sign Language (1823);
- Finnish sign language (1850s, with local impurities).
Literature
- Johnston, T. (2002). BSL, Auslan and NZSL: Three signed languages or one? In A. Baker, B. van den Bogaerde & O. Crasborn (Eds.), "Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research: Selected papers from TISLR 2000" (pp. 47–69). Hamburg: Signum Verlag.
- McKee, D. & G. Kennedy (2000). Lexical Comparison of Signs from American, Australian, British, and New Zealand Sign Languages. In K. Emmorey and H. Lane (Eds), "Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima." Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Notes
- ↑ Henri Wittmann. “Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement”. Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée 10: 1.215-88. [1] 1991
- ↑ Ethnologue