| Bulgarian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Български жестомимичен език | |
| Native to | Bulgaria |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2021 DBS/DOOR/SIL)[1] (2014)[2] |
French Sign
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bqn |
| Glottolog | bulg1240 |
Bulgarian Sign Language (Bulgarian:Български жестомимичен език,romanized: Balgarski zhestomimichen ezik,BZhE) is the language, or perhaps languages, of thedeaf community inBulgaria.
Primary schools were established for the deaf.Russian Sign Language was introduced in 1910, and allowed in the classroom in 1945, and Wittmann (1991) classifies it as a descendant of Russian Sign.[3] However, Bickford (2005) found that Bulgarian Sign formed a cluster with Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, and Polish Sign.[4] The language of the classroom is different from that used by adults outside,[2] and it is not clear if Wittmann and Bickford looked at the same language; nor, if one is derived from Russian Sign, if it is a dialect or if it creolized to form a new language.
 | This article about asign language or related topic is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
