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Language code: sgn

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sgn

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The table below provides technical details for the Sign Languages language, designated by the sgn code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

sgn

Name

Sign Languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
American Sign LanguageBritish Sign LanguageFrench Sign LanguageBrazilian Sign LanguageChinese Sign LanguageJapanese Sign LanguageSpanish Sign LanguageRussian Sign Language
Related languages
International SignPidgin Signed EnglishSigned Exact EnglishMakaton
Key facts
No single sign language is universalSign languages arise naturally in Deaf communities and are unrelated to the spoken languages around themGrammar relies on handshape, movement, location, orientation and non-manual markersMany sign languages form families (e.g., ASL descends from French Sign Language)Simultaneous morphology allows several linguistic units to be expressed at once
Sample phrase

In Sutton SignWriting (a common transcription system for many sign languages): 𝪛𝪨𝪘𝪴𝪇 𝪈𝪱𝪉 𝪓𝪤𝪊❓

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Sign Languages language, identified by the code sgn, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic-like' by its type.

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