The Paraguay–Uruguay Sign Language family is a possible

language family A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term ''family'' is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics ...

of two related

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 elements, no ...

Paraguay Sign Language Paraguayan Sign Language (, LSPY), is the deaf sign language of Paraguay. It is not intelligible with neighboring languages, nor with American Sign Language, but speakers report that it has historical connections with Uruguayan Sign Language. I ...

and Uruguay Sign Language. Glottolog also includes the

Chilean Sign Language Chilean Sign Language (, LSCh) is the sign language of Chile's seven deaf institutions. It is used by people all over Chile and is the primary language used by the deaf community, being used for television interpretations. There is variation with ...

in a possible larger ''Chile–Paraguay–Uruguay Sign'' family.

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