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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Europe > Greece > Greek Sign Language

Greek Sign Language

A language of Greece

ISO 639-3gss

Population  42,600 (VanCleve 1986).
Classification  Deaf sign language
Language use  12,000 children and 30,000 active adult users (1996).
Comments  Roots in American and French sign languages and various indigenous sign languages, which came together in the 1950s.