Irish Sign Language - wikipedia Irish Sign Language Irish Sign Language Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann Pronunciation ˈaɪərɪʃ saɪn ˈlæŋgwɪʤ Native to Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland Native speakers 5,000 deaf ( 2014 ) 45,000 hearing signers Language family French Sign Irish Sign Language Official status Official language in Republic of Ireland Language codes ISO 639 - 3 isg Glottolog iris1235 The ISL Manual / Fingerspelling Alphabet. Irish Sign Language ( ISL, Irish : Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann ) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland. It is also used in Northern Ireland, alongside British Sign Language ( BSL ). Irish Sign Language is more closely related to French Sign Language ( LSF ) than to BSL, though it has influence from both languages. It has influenced sign languages in Australia and South Africa, and has little relation to either spoken Irish or English. Contents 1 Development 2 Oireachtas bill 3 Language code 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External links Development The Irish Deaf Society says that ISL `` arose from within deaf communities '', `` was developed by deaf people themselves '' and `` has been in existence for hundreds of years ''. According to Ethnologue, the language has influence from both LSF and BSL, as well as from signed French and signed English, BSL having been introduced in Dublin in 1816. The first school for deaf children in Ireland was established in 1816 by Dr. Charles Orpen. The Claremont Institute was a Protestant institution and given that Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom, it is no surprise that BSL ( or some version of signed English based in BSL ) was used for teaching and learning ( Pollard 2006 ). McDonnell ( 1979 ) reports that the Irish institutions - Catholic and Protestant - did not teach the children to speak and it was not until 1887 that Claremont report changing from a manual to an oral approach. For the Catholic schools, the shift to oralism came later : St. Mary 's School for Deaf Girls moved to an oral approach in 1946 and St. Joseph 's School for Deaf Boys shifted to oralism in 1956, though this did not become formal state policy until 1972. Sign language use was seriously suppressed and religion was used to further stigmatise the language ( e.g. children were encouraged to give up signing for Lent and sent to confession if caught signing ). The fact that the Catholic schools are segregated on the basis of gender led to the development of a gendered - generational variant of Irish Sign Language that is still evident ( albeit to a lesser degree ) today. ISL was brought by Catholic missionaries to Australia, and to Scotland and England, with remnants of ISL still visible in some variants of BSL, especially in Glasgow, and with some elderly Auslan Catholics still using ISL today. In South Africa, the Dominican nuns who established Catholic Schools saw a need for a school for the deaf, but due to resource constraints were not in a position to do this immediately. Instead, they wrote back to their Mother House in Cabra requesting an experienced teacher of the deaf. A deaf teacher, Ms. Bridget Lynne, responded. Remnants of gendered generational Irish Sign Language are thought to still be visible in some dialects of South African Sign Language, which can probably be traced back to Ms. Lynne. Oireachtas Bill The `` Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016 '' passed all stages in the Oireachtas ( Irish Parliament ) on 14 December 2017, and was signed into law by the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins on 24 December 2017. The Bill ensures that public services are available through ISL and also outlines the need for greater access to education through sign language. Prior to the passage, there was no automatic right for deaf people to have an ISL interpreter ( except for criminal court proceedings ). For the deaf community, recognition of ISL means more legal rights and better access to public services - including education, healthcare, media and banking. Language code The ISO 639 - 3 code for Irish Sign Language is ' isg ' ; ' isl ' is the code for Icelandic. See also Irish manual alphabet Australian Sign Language Northern Ireland Sign Language South African Sign Language References Jump up ^ Irish Sign Language at Ethnologue ( 18th ed., 2015 ) Jump up ^ Hammarström, Harald ; Forkel, Robert ; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. ( 2017 ). `` Irish Sign Language ''. Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany : Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Jump up ^ `` Irish Sign Language ''. Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018. Jump up ^ Griffey 1994, Crean 1997 Jump up ^ McDonnell and Saunders 1993 Jump up ^ LeMaster 1990, Leeson and Grehan 2004, Leeson 2005, Leeson and Saeed 2012, Leonard 2005, Grehan 2008 Jump up ^ Leeson, Lorraine ; Saeed, John I. ( 2012 ). Irish Sign Language. Edinburgh University Press. Jump up ^ `` Irish Sign Language given official legal recognition ''. The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018 - 01 - 16. Jump up ^ `` President signs Irish Sign Language bill into law ''. RTE.ie. 2017 - 12 - 24. Retrieved 2018 - 01 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Dáil passes ' historic ' sign language legislation ''. RTE.ie. 2017 - 12 - 14. Retrieved 2017 - 12 - 14. Jump up ^ `` Irish Sign Language set to be given official status - Independent.ie ''. Independent.ie. Retrieved 2017 - 12 - 14. Jump up ^ `` Irish sign language set to receive official recognition ''. Breaking News. 2017 - 12 - 14. Retrieved 2017 - 12 - 14. Bibliography Crean, E, J. ( 1997 ) : Breaking the silence : The education of the deaf in Ireland 1816 - 1996. Dublin : Irish Deaf Society Publication. Department of Education ( 1972 ) : The Education of Children who are Handicapped by Impaired Hearing. Dublin : Government Publications. Grehan, C. ( 2008 ) : Communication Islands : The Impact of Segregation on Attitudes to ISL among a Sample of Graduates of St. Mary 's School for Deaf Girls. Unpublished M. Phil dissertation. School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. Dublin : Trinity College. Griffey, N. ( 1994 ) : From Silence to Speech : Fifty years with the Deaf. Dublin : Dominican Publications. Leeson, L. ( 2005 ). Vying with Variation : Interpreting Language Contact, Gender Variation and Generational Difference. In T. Janzen ( ed. ) Topics in Signed Language Interpreting. Amsterdam and Philadelphia : John Benjamins. 251 - 292. Leeson, L. and C. Grehan ( 2004 ) : `` To The Lexicon and Beyond : The Effect of Gender on Variation in Irish Sign Language ''. In Van Herreweghe, Mieke and Myriam Vermeerbergen ( eds. ) : To the Lexicon and Beyond : Sociolinguistics in European Deaf Communities. Washington DC : Gallaudet University Press. 39 - 73. Leeson, L. and J.I. Saeed ( 2012 ) Irish Sign Language. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. LeMaster, B. ( 1990 ) : The Maintenance and Loss of Female and Male Signs in the Dublin Deaf Community. Ann Arbor : U.M.I. : University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation. Leonard, C. ( 2005 ) : `` Signs of diversity : use and recognition of gendered signs among your Irish Deaf people ''. In : Deaf Worlds 21 : 2. 62 - 77. McDonnell, P. ( 1979 ) : The Establishment and Operation of Institutions for the Education of the Deaf in Ireland, 1816 - 1889. Unpublished essay submitted in part - fulfillment of the requirements of the award of the degree of Master in Education. Dublin : University College Dublin. McDonnell, P. and Saunders, H. ( 1993 ) : `` Sit on Your Hands : Strategies to Prevent Signing ''. In Fischer, R. and Lane, H. ( eds. ) Looking Back : A Reader on the History of Deaf Communities and their Sign Languages. Hamburg : Signum. 255 - 260. Pollard, Rachel ( 2006 ) : The Avenue. Dublin : Denzille Press. Rose, Heath and John Bosco Conama. 2018. Linguistic imperialism : still a valid construct in relation to language policy for Irish Sign Language. Language Policy Volume 17, Issue 3, pp 385 -- 404. External links Irish Deaf Society Centre for Deaf Studies, TCD Languages of the Republic of Ireland Official languages Irish English Minority languages Scots Ulster Scots Shelta Sign languages Irish Sign Language Francosign languages Proto Proto - LSF Africa Algerian Amslanic Francophone African Ghanaian Moroccan Nigerian Sierra Leonean Danish Malagasy Dutch Gambian Italian Tunisian Americas Libras Chilean Amslanic American Black ASL Bolivian Costa Rican Dominican Jamaican Panamanian Pro-Tactile ASL Puerto Rican Quebec Mexican Mexican Honduran Asia Amslanic Kuala Lumpur Burmese Cambodian Philippine Thai BIM BIM BISINDO Jakarta Yogyakarta Russian Mongolian Europe Catalan Valencian Dutch Estonian French Irish Italian Latvian Lithuanian Romanian Swiss - German Amslanic Greek Cypriot Austro - Hungarian Austrian Czech Hungarian Slovak Russian Bulgarian Georgian Moldovan Russian Ukrainian Yugoslav Croatian Kosovar Serbian Slovenian Yugoslav Old Belgian Flemish French Belgian Danish Danish Icelandic Norwegian Oceania Australian - Irish Italics indicate extinct languages Sign language List of sign languages List by number of signers Language families Sign languages by family Afroasiatic Mofu - Gudur Arabic Sign Egyptian Kuwaiti Libyan Qatari Unified Yemeni Iraqi -- Levantine Iraqi Levantine Arabic Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Syrian Possible Emirati Saudi Omani Banzsl Auslan Papua New Guinean BSL Northern Ireland Fijian Maritime NZSL Sāmoan South African Swedish Finland - Swedish Portuguese Teckenspråk Viittomakieli E. Trans - Fly Meriam Francosign Proto - LSF Algerian Catalan Valencian Chilean Estonian French Irish Australian - Irish Libras Lithuanian Romanian Swiss - German Amslanic American Black ASL Protactile BIM Bolivian Burmese Cambodian Costa Rican Dominican Greek Cypriot Jamaican Kuala Lumpur Panamanian Philippine Puerto Rican Quebec Singapore BISINDO Jakarta Yogyakarta Francophone African Ethiopian Chadian Ghanaian Guinean LaSiMa Moroccan Nigerian Sierra Leonean Austro - Hungarian Austrian Czech Hungarian Slovak Ukrainian Russian Bulgarian Georgian Latvian Moldovan Mongolian Russian Yugoslav Croatian Kosovar Serbian Slovenian Yugoslav Old Belgian VGT LSFB Danish Danish Icelandic Malagasy Norwegian Dutch Dutch Gambian Italian LIS Tunisian Mexican LSM Honduran Viet - Thai Hai Phong Hanoi Ho Chi Minh Thai Germanosign German Luxembourgish Polish Shassi Indo - European Armenian Women 's Indo - Pakistani Sign Bangalore - Madras Beluchistan Bengali Bombay Calcutta Delhi Nepali North West Frontier Province Punjab - 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Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. ^ b Denotes the number ( if known ) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages. GND : 7576978 - 5 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irish_Sign_Language&oldid=859887390 '' Categories : Languages of Ireland Languages of the United Kingdom French Sign Language family Languages of Northern Ireland Deaf culture in Ireland Hidden categories : Language articles citing Ethnologue 18 Articles containing Irish - language text Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Languages Brezhoneg Esperanto Français Gaeilge Piemontèis Rumantsch Sicilianu Türkçe 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 16 September 2018, at 23 : 14 ( UTC ). 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Question: what type of sign language is used in ireland
Answer: Irish Sign Language