Tunisian 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 elements, no ...
used by deaf people in
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...
. It derives from
Italian Sign Language
Italian Sign Language (, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st cen ...
, mixed with
indigenous sign.
It is not clear how the language of the
Burj as-Salh deaf village relates to indigenous sign and TSL.
See also
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Deafness in Tunisia
References
French Sign Language family
Languages of Tunisia
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