Uruguayan Sign Language, or ''Lengua de señas uruguaya'' (LSU), 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
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
, used since 1910. It is not intelligible with neighboring languages, though it may have historical connections with
Paraguayan Sign Language.
In 2001, LSU was recognized as an official language of Uruguay under Law 17.378.
References
External links
Uruguayan Sign Language Dictionary- Uruguayan Sign Language Dictionary
The Uruguayan Deaf Community- Elizabeth Parks & Holly Williams, SIL International (2013)
Sign language isolates
Languages of Uruguay
Disability in Uruguay
Deaf culture in Uruguay
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