Mexican Sign Language > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Mexican Sign Language
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Lenguaje de Signos Mexicano; Lenguaje Manual Mexicana; Lenguaje de las Manos LSM; LSM; Lenguaje de las Manos
Number of speakers:
87,000 to 100,000 mainly monolingual users (1986 T. C. Smith-Stark), out of 1,300,000 deaf persons in Mexico (VanCleve 1986)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
mfs
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sign Languages
Parent Subgroup:
North American Deaf Sign Languages; North American Sign Language (ndsl)
Map of Mexican Sign Language
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