, or Signed Swedish, is an obsolete manually coded form of

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

that used signs of

Swedish Sign Language Swedish Sign Language (STS; ) is the sign language used in Sweden. It is recognized by the Swedish government as the country's official sign language, and hearing parents of deaf individuals are entitled to access state-sponsored classes that ...

for lexical words, supplemented by additional signs for grammatical words and inflectional endings. It was developed in the 1970s in the hopes of making Swedish more accessible to the deaf, but was later abandoned for being slow and inefficient. It was never a natural form of communication among deaf people.

References

External links

* Linus Glansholm (1993
''Teckenspråket och de dövas situation, förr och nu''

Swedish language Languages attested from the 1970s {{Germanic-lang-stub