Glottolog 5.1 - Swiss-Italian Sign Language

Sign Language: Swiss-Italian Sign Language

Subclassification references

Comments on subclassification

Swiss-Italian Sign Language [swis1235] is similar to Italian Sign Language [ital1275] ( Penny Boyes Braem and Christian Rathmann 2010 ):22 and is in turn said to derive from French Sign Language ( Josep Quer and Laura Mazzoni and Galini Sapountzaki 2010: 98 , Serena Corazza 1993 ). Tunisian Sign Language [tuni1249] may be part of this family ( Kamei, Nobutaka 2004 ):47 but historical or lexical evidence to this effect is lacking in print. Aymen Nefaa (2023) contains a lexical comparison to LSF (but not to any other language) but the outcome in the low 30%:s range is inconclusive of a genealogical relationship to LSF, and if so, any closer relationship to, for example, Italian Sign.

Endangerment

AES status:: shifting
Source:: Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:: Swiss-Italian Sign Language (7362-slf) = Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available) (In 2006, approximately 80 percent of deaf infants were implanted, many of them at as early as thirteen months of age and the medical staff usually does not encourage parents to use sign language with their deaf child.... The number of pupils in the day and residential schools for the Deaf has been steadily decreasing over the past decade, as the large majority of Swiss deaf children who have received a cochlear implant are integrated into classes with hearing children, usually without signing support." "Many signers in these more recent deaf generations have learned sign language as adolescents from the adult Deaf community.)
(see Braem and Rathmann 2010)