Polish Sign Language

Polish Sign Language is descended from German Sign Language.

The deaf communities use Polish Sign Language belonging to the German family of Sign Languages.

The Polish manual alphabet is a single-handed manual alphabet used in Polish Sign Language.

Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy")

Polish Sign Language uses a one-handed manual alphabet based on the alphabet used in Old French Sign Language.

Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) is the language of the Deaf community in Poland.

The German Sign Language family is a small language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language.

Within the first category, the following languages are available, at all levels of instruction: Belarusian, German, Hebrew, Kashubian, Lemkian, Ruthenian, Lithuanian, Polish Sign Language, Slovak, Ukrainian and Yiddish.

Regional variants of Russian Sign are relatively divergent, comparable to the regional variants within Polish Sign Language or Estonian Sign Language, but greater than a more homogeneous ASL.

European Day of languages 26 September 2008 Examples of practice 2007 European Day of Languages We will focus on four or five main languages in Europe including English, German, French, Russian and Polish Sign Language which is the first language for our lerners.

German Sign Language (DGS) gave rise to Polish Sign Language; it also at least strongly influenced Israeli Sign Language, though it is unclear whether the latter derives from DGS or from Austrian Sign Language, which is in the French family.