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Zaban Eshareh Irani

Zaban Eshareh Irani is a sign language spoken in Iran.

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

Iranian Sign Language (ISL), also referred to as Farsi Sign Language, Persian Sign Language, and Zaban Eshareh Irani (ZEI, Persian: زبان اشاره ایرانی), is the sign language used by Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Iran. It is a true sign language, unlike the Baghcheban phonetic hand alphabet, which is a form of cued speech.

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