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Israeli Sign Language, or ISL, is the most commonly used sign language in the deaf community of Israel. Some other sign languages
are also used in Israel, among them Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. The history of ISL goes back to 1873 in Germany, where
Marcus Reich, a German Jew, opened a special school for Jewish deaf children. At the time, it was considered one of the best
of its kind, which made it a lodestone to Jewish deaf children from all over the world, as well as non-Jews. In 1932 several
teachers from this school opened the first school for Jewish deaf children in Jerusalem. The sign language used in the Jerusalemite
school was influenced by the German Sign Language (DGS), but other sign languages or signing systems brought by immigrants
also contributed to the emerging language, which started out as a pidgin. A local creole gradually emerged, which became ISL.
ISL still shares many features and vocabulary items with DGS, although it is too far apart today to be considered a dialect
of the latter. During the 1940s ISL became the language of a well established community of Jewish deaf people in Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv. Today ISL is the most used and taught sign language in Israel, and serves as the main mode of communication
for most deaf people in Israel, including Jewish, Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze, and Bedouins. Some Arab, Druze, and Bedouin
towns and villages have sign languages of their own. In addition to ISL, there is also Hebrew manually coded language used
as a tool to teaching deaf children the Hebrew language, and for communication between deaf and hearing people. |
Names (more)[en] Israeli Sign Language[he] שפת הסימנים הישראלית |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : isrLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/isrhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:isr More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: isrFreebase ISO 639-3 : isr GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |