Ecuadorian Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas ecuatoriana or de Ecuador, LSEC) is the sign language of Ecuador.
| Ecuadorian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ecuador |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2021)[1] |
Andean? | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ecs |
| Glottolog | ecua1243 |
| ELP | Ecuadorian Sign Language |
Classification
editClark notes that Peruvian, Bolivian, Ecuadorian and Colombian sign languages "have significant lexical similarities to each other" and "contain a certain degree of lexical influence from ASL" as well, at least going by the forms in national dictionaries.[2] Chilean and Argentinian share these traits, though to a lesser extent.
References
edit- ^ Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Clark Brenda dissertationUniversity of Hawaiʻi Archived 2021-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
