TheDanish Sign Language family comprises three languages:Danish Sign Language,Norwegian Sign Language (includingMalagasy Sign Language) andIcelandic Sign Language. It itself is a sub-language family within the largerFrench Sign Language family.^[1]

Wittmann (1991) places Danish Sign in theFrench Sign Language family, although being also influenced by local pidgin Scandinavian Sign, which also influencedSwedish sign.

Ethnologue reports thatDanish Sign Language is largely mutually intelligible with Swedish Sign, though Wittmann places DSL in the French Sign Language family and Swedish Sign in theBritish Sign Language family.^[2]

• Aldersson, Russell R. and Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis. 2007. A Lexical Comparison of Icelandic Sign Language and Danish Sign Language.Birkbeck Studies in Applied Linguistics Vol 2.A Lexical Comparison of Icelandic Sign Language and Danish Sign LanguageArchived 2021-05-14 at theWayback Machine
• Wittmann, Henri (1991)."Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement"(PDF).Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée (in French).10 (1):215–288.Archived(PDF) from the original on 6 March 2023.

• Danish Sign Language family
• French Sign Language family

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