Croatian sign language ( Croatian Hrvatski znakovni jezik / HZJ [1] [2] ) is a sign language used by the hard of hearing and deaf people of Croatia [3] [4] . In the past, it was considered as a dialect of the Yugoslav sign language , although studies of dialectic diversity in the territory of Yugoslavia were not conducted in this area [5] .
| Croatian sign language | |
|---|---|
| Self name | Hor. Hrvatski znakovni jezik |
| Country |  Croatia |
| Total number of speakers | 13,000 (2014) |
| Classification | |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | csq |
| Ethnologue | |
| Ietf | |
| Glottolog | |
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Brief History
The first school for deaf-and-dumb in Croatia was founded in Zagreb in 1885 [6] . From 3 to 5 May 2001, the Conference Sign Language and Deaf Culture ( English Sign Language and Deaf Culture ) [7] was held in Zagreb, and in 2004, scientists at Purdue University and Zagreb University launched a project to create a grammar for Croatian sign language [eight]
Application
At present, Croatian radio and television translates TV programs [9] . In Croatia, there are three major centers for learning sign language: Zagreb , Split and Osijek [10] . In particular, in Zagreb, studies of sign language and culture of the deaf are conducted at the educational and rehabilitation faculty of the University of Zagreb; It is planned to approve the Law on Croatian Sign Language, which would regulate the status of the language [11] . Since 1994, the Croatian Association of Deaf-blind People “DODIR” has been operating [12] .
Features
As in ordinary Croatian language, Croatian gestural uses the word order subject - verb - object [13] . The two-handed gestural alphabet spread , although the one-handed gestural alphabet created on the basis of the international gestural alphabet [5] [14] [15] has official status.
Notes
- ↑ Diane Brentari, Sign Languages , Cambridge University Press, 2010. (p.xix)
- ↑ Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz; Figurative language comprehension , Routledge, 2005. (p.316)
- ↑ Croatian Sign Language , Ethnologue
- ↑ Zakon o uporabi znakovnog jezika u Bosnia i Hercegovini
- 2 1 2 Bickford, J. Albert (2005) The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe
- ↑ Croatia profile Archived July 20, 2011. , The European Union of the Deaf
- ↑ Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli, Elana Ochse; English in International Deaf Communication , Peter Lang, 2008. (p.347)
- Basic A Basic Grammar of Croatian Sign Language Archived July 16, 2011.
- ↑ Zakon o Hrvatskoj Radioteleviziji
- ↑ Tečaj HZJ
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons DODIR
- Word Sign Clin Clin Clin , Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, November – December 2007; 21 (11–12): 1007–1017.
- ↑ Single-handed alphabet
- ↑ Jednoručna abeceda