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Levantine Arabic Sign Language

Levantine Arabic Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Jordan.

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

Levantine Arabic Sign Language is the sign language used by people of the area known as Bilad al-Sham or the Levant, comprising Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Although there are significant differences in vocabulary between the four states, this is not much greater than regional differences within the states. Grammar is quite uniform and mutual intelligibility is high, indicating that they are dialects of a single language.

The language typically goes by the name of the country, as so:

Jordanian SL: لغة الإشارة الأردنية, Lughat il-Ishārah il-Urduniyyah (LIU)

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