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Quebec Sign Language

A language of Canada

ISO 639-3: fcs

Population	No estimate available.
Region	Quebec; Ontario, nothern Ontario, Ottawa; New Brunswick, Bathurst; British Columbia, Vancouver; Alberta, Edmonton.
Alternate names	Langue des Signes, Langue des Signes du Québec, Langue Signe Quebecars, LSQ, Québécoise
Dialects	Related to French Sign Language (LSF) [fsl].
Classification	Deaf sign language
Language use	In northern Quebec, deaf people use ASL, with English the L2. Some use Signed French. Segregated deaf education by sex resulted in some lexical differences between the sexes; female use more influenced by ASL and LSQ; male by Signed French and LSQ. Rare for a deaf child to learn both LSQ and ASL. A few adults have working knowledge of both.
Comments	Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

PARKS, Elizabeth, author; PARKS, Jason, editor. 2011. Americas Area Sign Language Survey Report Video Summaries in American Sign Language.

PARKS, Elizabeth, author; PARKS, Jason, editor. 2012. Americas Area Sign Language Survey Report Video Summaries in American Sign Language - Quebec.

PARKS, Elizabeth; WILLIAMS, Holly, authors. 2011. "Sociolinguistic Profiles of Twenty-four Deaf Communities in the Americas."