Russian Sign Language

E802662

Russian Sign Language is the primary visual-gestural language used by Deaf communities across Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf natural language
sign language
countryUsedIn Russia NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName RSL NERFINISHED
Russky zhestovy yazyk NERFINISHED
hasCommunity Russian Deaf community
hasCommunityOrganization All-Russian Society of the Deaf NERFINISHED
hasDialect regional variants within Russia
hasLexiconSource borrowings from other sign languages
iconic formations
indigenous signs
hasLinguisticLevel morphology
phonology
semantics
syntax
hasParameter handshape
location
movement
non-manual markers
orientation
hasResearchField sign linguistics
hasWordOrder relatively flexible
isDistinctFrom American Sign Language NERFINISHED
British Sign Language NERFINISHED
International Sign NERFINISHED
isNot signed form of spoken Russian
ISO6393Code rsl
languageFamily Russian Sign Language family
primaryModality manual-visual
recognizedAs language of instruction in some Russian Deaf schools
regionUsedIn former Soviet Union NERFINISHED
usedBy Deaf community in Russia
children of Deaf adults in Russia
hard of hearing people in Russia
usedIn Deaf cultural events in Russia
Deaf education in Russia
Moscow NERFINISHED
Russian Far East NERFINISHED
Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED
Siberia NERFINISHED
interpreting services in Russia
some post-Soviet states
uses body posture
facial expressions
handshapes
movements
writingSystem no standard written form

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French Sign Language family hasMember Russian Sign Language