| Plateau Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Langue des Signes du Plateau | |
| Native to | Canada,United States |
| Region | Columbia Plateau |
| Ethnicity | VariousFirst Nations and Native Americans of theColumbia Plateau region |
Native speakers | 1-2 rememberers (2017)[1] |
contactpidgin | |
| none | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Maps of the various sign languages of Turtle Island (North America), excludingFrancosign languages. Plateau Sign Language is labelled in orange as "PSL" | |
Plateau Sign Language, orOld Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinctsign language historically used across theColumbian Plateau. TheCrow Tribe introducedPlains Sign Talk, which replaced Plateau Sign Language among the eastern nations that used it (the Coeur d’Alene, Sanpoil, Okanagan, Thompson, Lakes, Shuswap, and Colville), with western nations[which?] shifting instead toChinook Jargon.[2]
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