Ise

Also Known As: Lingua Italiana Dei Segni,Lis Description: Italian Sign Language or LIS (Lingua Italiana dei Segni ) is the manual language employed by deaf in Italy. It began to be deeply analyzed in the '80s, in the line of what William Stokoe had made with American Sign Language in the '60s. Until recently, most of the studies about Italian Sign Language deal with its phonology and vocabulary. Like many signed languages, LIS is very different from its "spoken neighbour", so that it has little in common with spoken Italian but shares some features with non-Indoeuropean oral languages (e.g. it is verb final, like the Basque language; it has inclusive and exclusive pronominal forms like oceanic languages; interrogative particles are verb final You go where?). A sign variety of spoken Italian also exists, the so-called Signed Italian (Italiano Segnato) which combines LIS lexicon with the grammar of spoken Italian: this is not Italian Sign Language, however. Some features of LIS are typical of signed languages in general, e.g. agreement between nouns, adjectives and verbs is not based on gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) but it is based on place, that is the spatial position in which the sign is performed: nouns can be placed everywhere..... full article at Wikipedia Location of Italian Sign Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/ise/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png

Overview Main Country: Italy Spoken In: Regions: Europe ISO 639-3 Code: ise Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Deaf sign language Group     Italian Sign Language