Russian-Tajik Sign Language
Russian-Tajik Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Russia and Bulgaria, by about 120 thousand people.
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Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar, unrelated to the spoken languages around them.
Russian Sign Language (RSL; Russian: Русский жестовый язык, РЖЯ) is the sign language used by the Deaf community in Russia, with what is possibly additional presence in Belarus and Tajikistan. It belongs to the French Sign Language family.
RSL is a natural language with a grammar that differs from spoken or written Russian language. Signed Russian is an artificial form of communication used in schools and differs from RSL in strictly following Russian grammar.
Although RSL is legally recognized in Russia, it does not enjoy state support and there is a lack of skilled RSL interpreters in the country.
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