Turkish Sign Language

Turkish Sign Language
Türk İşaret Dili
Native toTurkey, Northern Cyprus
Signers250,000 (2021)[1]
Early form
Possibly from Ottoman Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3tsm
Glottologturk1288

Turkish Sign Language (Turkish: Türk İşaret Dili, TİD) is the language used by the deaf community in Turkey. As with other sign languages, TİD has a unique grammar that is different from the oral languages used in the region.

TİD uses a two-handed manual alphabet which is very different from the two-handed alphabets used in the BANZSL sign languages. It also uses the tongue in certain phrases.

  1. ^ Turkish Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon