Georgian Sign Language

Georgian Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
ქართული ჟესტური ენა
Native to	Georgia
Language family	Russian Sign Language? Georgian Sign Language;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	geor1254
IETF	rsl-GE

Georgian Sign Language (Georgian: ქართული ჟესტური ენა, romanized: kartuli zhest'uri ena) is the national sign language of the deaf in the country of Georgia.^[2]^[3]

Fingerspelling originally used an alphabet based on the Russian manual alphabet.

References

^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Georgian Sign Language". Glottolog 4.3. Archived from the original on 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
^ Final workshop in Georgian Sign Language Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, 2011, Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia
^ N. Kitesashvili, n.d., Basic Lexicon of Georgian Sign Language

[1] Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Georgian Sign Language". Glottolog 4.3. Archived from the original on 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-12-01.

[2] Final workshop in Georgian Sign Language Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, 2011, Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia

[3] N. Kitesashvili, n.d., Basic Lexicon of Georgian Sign Language

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v t e Languages of Georgia
Official language	Georgian
Minority languages	Abkhazian Azerbaijani Armenian Bats Laz Mingrelian Ossetian Pontic Greek Russian Svan Urum
Sign languages	Georgian Sign Language