| Ecuadorian Sign Language | |
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| 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 orde Ecuador,LSEC) is thesign language ofEcuador.
Clark notes thatPeruvian,Bolivian, Ecuadorian andColombian 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 andArgentinian share these traits, though to a lesser extent.
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