Finnish Sign Language

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Finnish Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language of the Finnish Deaf community, with its own grammar and vocabulary distinct from spoken Finnish.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf natural language
sign language
community Deaf people in Finland
children of Deaf adults in Finland
hard-of-hearing people in Finland
country Finland
distinctFrom Finland-Swedish Sign Language
Finnish language
spoken Finnish
educationPolicy used as language of instruction for some Deaf students in Finland
hasAlphabeticRepresentation uses written Finnish for many written purposes
hasCommunityOrganization Finnish Association of the Deaf
hasCorpus video corpora collected by Finnish researchers
hasDialect regional variants within Finland
hasOwnGrammar true
hasOwnVocabulary true
hasPhonologicalParameters handshape
location
movement
non-manual markers
orientation
hasResearchField Finnish Sign Language linguistics
influencedBy Swedish Sign Language (historically)
ISO639-3Code fse
languageFamily Finnish Sign Language family
legalStatus protected language in Finland
linguisticType subject–object–verb dominant word order (approximate)
modality visual-gestural
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith American Sign Language
British Sign Language
International Sign (to a large extent)
primaryUsers Finnish Deaf community
recognizedAs minority language in Finland
recognizedBy Finnish legislation
region Finland
usedFor daily communication among Deaf people in Finland
education
media and broadcasting for Deaf audiences
religious services for Deaf congregations
theatre and cultural events in the Deaf community
usedIn Deaf community organizations in Finland
interpreting services in Finland
schools for the Deaf in Finland
uses body posture
facial expressions
manual signs
spatial grammar
writingSystem no standard native writing system

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