Levantine Arabic Sign Language, also known as Syro-Palestinian Sign Language, is the
sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...
used by Deaf and hearing people of
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
,
Palestine,
Syria, and
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...
. Although there are significant differences in vocabulary between the four states, this is not much greater than regional differences within the states. Grammar is quite uniform and mutual intelligibility is high, indicating that they are dialects of a single language.
The language typically goes by the name of the country, as so:
* Jordanian SL: لغة الإشارة الأردنية ''Lughat il-Ishārah il-Urduniyyah'' (LIU)
* Lebanese SL: لغة الإشارات اللبنانية ''Lughat al-Ishārāt al-Lubnāniyyah'' (LIL)
* Palestinian SL: لغة الاشارات الفلسطينية ''Lughat al-Ishārāt al-Filisṭīniyyah'' (LIF)
* Syrian SL: لغة الإشارة السورية ''Lughat il-Ishārah il-Sūriyyah'' (LIS)
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Arab sign languages
Languages of Jordan
Languages of the State of Palestine
Languages of Syria
Languages of Lebanon
Sign languages of Israel