Polish Sign Language
| Polish Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Polski Język Migowy | |
| Native to | Poland |
Native speakers | 40,000 to 50,000 (2014)[1] |
Polish Sign Language
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pso |
| Glottolog | poli1259 |
Polish Sign Language(Polish:Polski język migowy,PJM) is the language of thedeaf communityinPoland.Polish Sign Language uses a distinctiveone-handed manual Alpha betbased on the Alpha bet used inOld French Sign Languageand therefore appears to be related toFrench Sign Language.It may also have common features withRussian Sign LanguageandGerman Sign Language,which is related to the history of Poland duringthe Partitions,whenRussificationandGermanizationsignificantly influenced thePolish language,and may also have borrowings from the sign language used in the Austrian partition.[citation needed]Itslexiconandgrammarare distinct from thePolish language,although there is amanually codedversion of Polish known asSystem Językowo-Migowy(SJM, or Signed Polish), which is often used by interpreters on television and by teachers in schools.
Polish Sign Language was first formed/became prevalent around 1817. Around that time, theInstytut Głuchoniemych(Institute for the Deaf-Mute) was founded byJakub Falkowski,who began teaching deaf children after meeting a deaf boy by the name of Piotr Gąsowski.[2]In 1879, its first dictionary was published by Józef Hollak and Teofil Jagodziński, titled "Słownik mimiczny dla głuchoniemych i osób z nimi styczność mających"[3]( "The Mimic Dictionary for the Deaf-Mute and Persons Having Contact with Them" ).
In 2012, under the "Sign Language Act", thelanguage received official status in Polandand can be chosen as the language of instruction by those who require it.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Polish Sign LanguageatEthnologue(22nd ed., 2019)
- ^"Historia Instytutu Głuchoniemych: szkoły dla niesłyszących".Archivedfrom the original on 2020-10-08.Retrieved2020-08-21.
- ^Eźlakowski, Wiktor (Spring 2020)."Grammar of Polish Sign Language as Compared to Grammar of Polish Language: Selected Themes".Sign Language Studies.20(3): 518–532.doi:10.1353/sls.2020.0011.JSTOR26984269.S2CID219809339.Archivedfrom the original on 12 January 2022.Retrieved12 January2022.
- ^AGH (2012-03-23)."Ustawa o języku migowym wchodzi w życie!"(in Polish). agh.edu.pl. Archived fromthe originalon 2018-05-28.Retrieved2018-05-27.
Scholarly literature
[edit]- Piotr Fabian and Jarosław Francik. "Synthesis and presentation of the Polish sign language gestures." 1st International Conf. on Applied Mathematics and Informatics at Universities. 2001.
- Farris, M. A. Sign language research and Polish sign language.Lingua Posnaniensis36 (1994): 13–36.
- Mariusz Oszust and Marian Wysocki. Polish sign language words recognition with Kinect. Human System Interaction (HSI), 2013 The 6th International Conference on. IEEE, 2013.
- Włodarczak, Aleksandra, Agnieszka Kossowska, and Małgorzata Haładewiczygrzelak. "Understanding Loans from Standard Polish into the Polish Sign Language."Communication as a Life Process,Volume Two:The Holistic Paradigm in Language Sciences(2019): 73ff. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
External links
[edit]- (in Polish)Polish manual Alpha bet
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- Polish Association of the Deafofficial website
- (in Polish)History of Polish Sign Language
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