Glottolog 5.1 - Uruguayan Sign Language

Sign Language: Uruguayan Sign Language

Subclassification references

Elizabeth Parks and Jason Parks 2015

Comments on subclassification

Uruguayan Sign Language appears to be lexicostatistically distinct from Paraguayan Sign language ( Elizabeth Parks and Jason Parks 2015 ):8-9 and presumably from other sign languages as well.

Endangerment

AES status:: shifting
Source:: Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:: Uruguayan Sign Language (7119-ugy) = Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) (Ethnologue (2013) lists he vitality of Uruguayan Sign Language as: 5 (Developing).)
(see Simons; and Fennig 2013)