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  1. The French Sign Language ( LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language . The LSF family descends from Old French Sign Language (VLSF), which developed among the deaf community in Paris. The earliest mention of Old French Sign ...

  2. French Sign Language ( French: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to Ethnologue, it has 100,000 native signers.

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  4. French Sign Language and Deaf Community in France. French Sign Language ("langue des signes française" or LSF) is the national language of the Deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. LSF is related and partially ancestral to German Sign Language (DGS), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign ...

  5. The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references to forms of communication using hand gestures date back as far as 5th century BC Greece. Sign language is composed of a system of conventional gestures, mimic, hand signs and finger spelling ...

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