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British Sign Language

British Sign Language is a sign language spoken in United Kingdom, by about 327 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar, unrelated to the spoken languages around them.

British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. Based on the percentage of people who reported 'using British Sign Language at home' on the 2011 Scottish Census, the British Deaf Association estimates there are 151,000 BSL users in the UK, of whom 87,000 are Deaf. People who are not deaf may also use BSL, as hearing relatives of deaf people, sign language interpreters or as a result of other contact with the British Deaf community. The language makes use of space and involves movement of the hands, body, face and head.

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