French Sign Language
| French Sign | |
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| Langue des signes française | |
 LSF in French manual alphabet | |
| Native to | France, Switzerland |
| Signers | 100,000 (2019) |
French Sign
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fsl – inclusive codeIndividual code: ssr – Swiss-FrenchSign Language |
| Glottolog | fren1243 FrenchSign Language swis1241 Swiss-FrenchSign Language |
| ELP | Swiss-French Sign Language |
French Sign Language (French: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in France and in French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to Ethnologue, it has 100,000 native signers.
French Sign Language is related and partially ancestral to Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign Language (LSFB), Irish Sign Language (ISL), American Sign Language (ASL), Quebec (also known as French Canadian) Sign Language (LSQ), Brazilian Sign Language (LSB or Libras) and Russian Sign Language (RSL).