Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Spanish: Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a form of sign language which developed largely spontaneously among deaf children in a number of schools in Nicaragua in the 1980s. It is of particular interest to linguists as it offers them a unique opportunity to study what they believe to be the birth of a new language.
| Nicaraguan Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua, ISN | |
| Native to | Nicaragua |
| Region | The Managua region and spreading throughout the country |
Native speakers | 3,000 (1997) |
Deaf-community sign language: developed as a creole language from home and idioglossic sign, with the addition of an ASL-influenced manual alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ncs |
| Glottolog | nica1238 |
| ELP | Nicaraguan Sign Language |
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