Dutch Sign Language

Dutch Sign Language
Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN), Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT)
Native to Netherlands
Native speakers
 7,500 (2014)[1]
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Language codes
ISO 639-3 dse
Glottolog dutc1253[2]

Dutch Sign Language (Dutch: Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the sign language used by deaf people in the Netherlands and is not officially recognized. As of 1995, more and more schools for the deaf in The Netherlands teach Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren). This uses the grammar of Dutch rather than NGT.

NGT is not the same as Flemish Sign Language, and may not even be related to it.

Education

There are currently five schools for deaf children in the country, with the first being built at the end of the 18th century and the rest between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. While the first school used a manual method to teach the language, signing was originally prohibited in each of the latter schools and they instead tended to use an oral method of teaching. Today, because of cochlear implants, education is consistently leaning towards oralist methods.

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References

  1. ↑ Dutch Sign Language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dutch Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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