Proper noun
French Sign Language
A dactylological sign language used in seven different countries, based on Old French Sign Language. ISO 639-3 code: fsl.
As a consequence American Sign Language today has a 60% similarity to modern French Sign Language and is almost unintelligible to users of British Sign Language. Source: Internet
In the late 1700s, an institute for the deaf was founded in France by Abb de l'Epe, who improved upon a system already in use, OFSL (Old French Sign Language). Source: Internet
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. BSL is also distinct from Irish Sign Language (ISL) (ISG in the ISO system) which is more closely related to French Sign Language (LSF) and ASL. Source: Internet
Prototype-R languages are languages that are remotely modelled on a prototype-A language (in many cases thought to have been French Sign Language) by a process Kroeber (1940) called " stimulus diffusion ". Source: Internet
There are a number of sign languages that emerged from French Sign Language (LSF), or are the result of language contact between local community sign languages and LSF. Source: Internet