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Preferred term

fseFinnish Sign Language  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Finnish Sign Language (suomalainen viittomakieli in Finnish) is the sign language most commonly used in Finland. There are 5000 (estimate) Finnish deaf who have Finnish Sign Language as a mother tongue. Linguistically Finnish Sign Language is closest to Swedish Sign Language, from which it began to separate as an independent language in the middle of the 19th century.

ISO 639-3 code

  • fse

nearly same as

In other languages

  • Finski znakovni jezik

    Croatian

  • Finna mansigna lingvo

    Esperanto

  • Suomalainen viittomakieli

    Finnish

  • Lingua dei segni finlandese

    Italian

  • Finsk tegnspråk

    Norwegian

  • Língua de sinais finlandesa

    Portuguese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fse

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