alternate_names: "Lingua dei Segni Italiana; LIS-SI",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Sign Language; European",
dialect_varieties: "Lugano, Bellinzona",
public_comment: ""The sign language used in German Switzerland, DSGS, is similar to the sign language used in the southern parts of Germany, LSF-SR to the sign language used in France (LSF) and LIS-SI to Italian Sign Language (LIS). An interesting study that remains to be done is of the extent to which these Swiss sign languages could be considered regional dialects of the sign languages of these neighboring countries." (Boyes Braem and Rathmann 2010)",
private_comment: null,
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code_id:7362,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "200",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "(Van Cleve 1986)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
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id:18623,
code_id:7362,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:90420,
preferred: 0,
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code_id:7362,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "300",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "ca. 7,500",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""...estimates based on the internationally used formula of 0.0 I signing deaf persons per thousand of a population, as well as on membership in various clubs and organizations and on clients of interpreter services, would indicate that of the c.7.5million inhabitants of Switzerland, there are c.7,500 Deaf signers, with c.5,500 in the eighteen primarily German-speaking cantons, 1,700 in the seven primarily French cantons and 300 in the Italian canton. Whether the traditional formula is still valid for the younger generations of deaf children who now routinely receive cochlear implants is an important open question for future research. There are, in addition, c.13,000 hearing signers in the country, an estimate based on the number of participants in sign language classes. There are no figures for children of deaf adults (CODAs)."",
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simplified_level: "high",
coordinates: "46.31,8.79",
updated_at: "2018-03-18 01:01:01",
speaker_attitude: "",
government_support: "Recognized, but not official; government resources in sign languages; several government acts of support for sign languages; subsidies for sign language classes; inter-cantonal training of sign language teachers and of sign language interpreters",
institutional_support: "Swiss Federation of the Deaf (SGB-FSS)",
_other_languages_used: "Swiss-German Sign Language, Swiss-French Sign Language, other sign languages",