Georgian Sign Language

Georgian Sign Language
ქართული ჟესტური ენა
Native toGeorgia
Russian Sign Language?[1]
  • Georgian Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologgeor1254

Georgian Sign Language (Georgian: ქართული ჟესტური ენა, romanized: kartuli zhest'uri ena) is the national sign language of the deaf in the country of Georgia.[2][3]

Fingerspelling originally used an alphabet based on the Russian manual alphabet.

  1. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Georgian Sign Language". Glottolog 4.3. Archived from the original on 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  2. ^ Final workshop in Georgian Sign Language Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, 2011, Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia
  3. ^ N. Kitesashvili, n.d., Basic Lexicon of Georgian Sign Language