The Paraguay–Uruguay Sign Language family is a possible

language family A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in h ...

of two related

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 ...

s: Paraguay Sign Language and Uruguay Sign Language. Glottolog also includes the

Chilean Sign Language Chilean Sign Language, or ''Lengua de Señas Chilena'' (LSCh), is the sign language of Chile's seven deaf institutions. It is used by people all over Chile and is the primary language used by the deaf community, being used for television interpre ...

in a possible larger ''Chile–Paraguay–Uruguay Sign'' family.

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