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Greek Sign Language

Greek Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Greece, by about 40.6 thousand people.

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

Greek Sign Language (Greek: Ελληνική νοηματική γλώσσα, romanized: Ellinikí noimatikí glóssa, ENG) is a sign language used by the Greek deaf community.

Greek Sign has been legally recognized as the official language area of the Deaf community for educational purposes in Greece since 2000.

On December 19, 2013, the OMKE (Greek Federation of the Deaf) presented the Declaration on the Constitutional Recognition of the Greek Sign Language.

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