Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL) is a moribund sign language in Finland. It is now used only in private settings by older adults who attended the only Swedish school for the deaf in Finland (in Porvoo, Swedish: Borgå), which was established in the mid-19th century by Carl Oscar Malm but closed in 1993.[3] Some 90 persons have it as their native language.[4] FinSSL is said to be a distinct language; however, "Finland-Swedish Deaf have few problems understanding Finnish signers".[5] There had been, moreover, continuous input from Swedish Sign Language over its history.
| Finland-Swedish Sign Language | |
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| finlandssvenskt teckenspråk (Swedish) | |
| suomenruotsalainen viittomakieli (Finnish) | |
| Native to | Finland |
| Ethnicity | Finland-Swedes |
Native speakers | 150 deaf and 300 total (2014)[1] Same figure of 150 cited in 2001[2] |
? British Sign
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| ISO 639-3 | fss |
| Glottolog | finl1235 |
| ELP | Finnish-Swedish Sign Language |
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References edit
- ^ Finland-Swedish Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Finland-Swedish Sign Language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ Jossfolk, Karl-Gustav (2017). "Carl Oskar Malm, en döv visionär" (PDF). SFV-kalendern 2017 (in Swedish). 131. Svenska folkskolans vänner. eISSN 2243-0261. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-23.
- ^ Westerlund, Elin (3 August 2018). "Det finlandssvenska teckenspråket är utrotningshotad". Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish). pp. 8–11. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ Londen, Monica (2004). Communicational and educational choices for minorities within minorities: The case of the Finland-Swedish deaf (PDF). Helsinki University Press. ISBN 952-10-0812-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
Further reading edit
- Hoyer, Karin (2012). Dokumentation och beskrivning som språkplanering: Perspektiv från arbete med tre tecknade minoritetsspråk [Language Documentation and Description as Language Planning: Working with Three Signed Minority Languages] (PhD thesis). Nordica Helsingiensia, 29 (in Swedish). Helsingfors: Helsingfors universitet. ISBN 978-952-10-7611-4. ISSN 1795-4428.
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