Signed French () is any of at least three
manually coded forms of
French that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to French word order or grammar. In France, Signed French uses the signs of
French Sign Language
French Sign Language (, LSF) is the sign language of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in France and in French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to ''Ethnologue'', it has 100,000 native signers.
French Sign Language is related and part ...
; the Belgium system uses the signs of
French Belgian Sign Language
The French Belgian Sign Language (; LSFB) is the deaf sign language of the French language Community of Belgium, a country in Western Europe. It and Flemish Sign Language are very closely related (and distantly if at all related to French Sign ...
, and in Canada the signs of
Quebec Sign Language
Quebec Sign Language ( or , LSQ) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities used in francophone Canada, primarily in Quebec. Although named Quebec sign, LSQ can be found within Deafness in Francophone Canada, communities in Ontario and ...
. Signed French is used in education and for simultaneous translation, not as a natural form of communication among deaf people.
French
French language
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