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Ecuadorian Sign Language

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Ecuadorian Sign Language
Native toEcuador
Native speakers
50,000 (2021)[1]
Andean?
Language codes
ISO 639-3ecs
Glottologecua1243
ELPEcuadorian Sign Language

Ecuadorian Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas ecuatoriana or de Ecuador, LSEC) is the sign language of Ecuador.

Classification

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Clark notes that Peruvian, Bolivian, Ecuadorian and Colombian 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 and Argentinian share these traits, though to a lesser extent.

References

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  1. ^ Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Clark Brenda dissertationUniversity of Hawaiʻi Archived 2021-10-08 at the Wayback Machine