Iraqi Sign Language () is the
deaf sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...
of
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
. It appears to be close to
Levantine Arabic Sign Language
Levantine Arabic Sign Language, also known as Syro-Palestinian Sign Language, is the sign language used by Deaf and hearing people of Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially ...
the common sign language of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Jordan. It is taught in seven schools or deaf associations in the capitol of Baghdad and 5 other cities.
Related Sign Languages
In research done on Jordanian Sign Language, word lists from Baghdad were collected and compared to sign language from five other countries. It was found to have over 50% lexical similarities with the sign languages of Jordan and Syria
See also
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Kurdish Sign Language
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Levantine Arabic Sign Language
Levantine Arabic Sign Language, also known as Syro-Palestinian Sign Language, is the sign language used by Deaf and hearing people of Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially ...
References
Sources
*Hendriks, Bernadet, 2008. ''Jordanian Sign Language: aspects of grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective'' (dissertatio
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Arab sign languages
Languages of Iraq
Sign languages of Iraq