Ecuadorian Sign Language
| Ecuadorian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ecuador |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2021)[1] |
Andean? | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ecs |
| Glottolog | ecua1243 |
| ELP | Ecuadorian Sign Language |
Ecuadorian Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas ecuatoriana or de Ecuador, LSEC) is the sign language of Ecuador.
Classification
Clark notes that Peruvian, Bolivian, Ecuadorian and Colombian sign languages "have significant lexical similarities to each other" and "contain a certain degree of lexical influence from ASL" as well, at least going by the forms in national dictionaries.[2] Chilean and Argentinian share these traits, though to a lesser extent.
References
- ^ Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Clark Brenda dissertationUniversity of Hawaiʻi Archived 2021-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
| Official languages | |
|---|---|
| Indigenous languages | |
| Spanish varieties | |
| Sign languages | |
