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Norwegian Sign Language, or NSL (Norwegian Bokmål: norsk tegnspråk or Nynorsk: norsk teiknspråk, NTS), is the principal sign language in Norway. There are many sign language organizations and some television programs broadcast in NSL in Norway. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation airs Nyheter på tegnspråk (News in Sign Language) daily and Tid for tegn (Time for Signs) weekly.

Norwegian Sign Language
Norsk tegnspråk
Native toNorway
Native speakers
2,500 (2014)[1]
Language family
French Sign
  • Danish Sign
    • Norwegian Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
nsl  Norwegian SL
Glottolognorw1261
ELPNorwegian Sign Language

NSL is an official language as of 1 January 2022.[2]


Relation to Malagasy Sign Language


The language is sometimes reported to be similar, or even identical to the sign language used in Madagascar.[3] In fact, while Norwegian Sign Language may have influenced Malagasy sign language via the creation of schools for the deaf by Norwegian Lutheran missionaries, the languages are quite distinct. Out of a sample of 96 sign pairs, 18 pairs were identical between the two languages, 26 showed some level of similarity, and 52 appeared completely unrelated. It is not yet known to what degree the similarities are a result of direct borrowing, borrowing from a common source language (such as ASL or International Sign, mimesis of the thing they refer to, or sheer coincidence.[4]

Danish Sign Language family tree
French Sign
(c. 1760–present)
local/home sign
Danish Sign
(c. 1800–present)
Faroese Sign
(c. 1960–present)
Greenlandic Sign
(c. 1950–present)
Icelandic Sign
(c. 1910–present)
Norwegian Sign
(c. 1820–present)
Malagasy Sign
(c. 1950–present)

See also



References


  1. Norwegian SL at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
  2. "Offisielt frå statsrådet 21. mai 2021". regjeringen.no (in Norwegian). 21 May 2021. The seventh paragraph under "2. Sanksjonar og iverksetjingar". Archived from the original on 2021-05-22. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  3. Malagasy Sign Language, Ethnologue
  4. A Preliminary Study of Norwegian Sign Language and Malagasy Sign Language



На других языках


- [en] Norwegian Sign Language

[fr] Langue des signes norvégienne

La langue des signes norvégienne est une langue des signes utilisée par les sourds et leurs proches en Norvège. Elle est reconnue par la loi en 2009 comme une langue à part entière en Norvège[3].



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