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Danish Sign Language family

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The Danish Sign Language family comprises three languages: Danish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language, which includes Malagasy Sign Language, and Icelandic Sign Language. It is itself a sub-family within the larger French Sign Language family; the linguist Wittmann classified Danish Sign Language within the French Sign Language family in 1991, though Danish Sign Language has also been influenced by a local pidgin form of Scandinavian sign.

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