Swiss Sign Language is a deaf sign language of Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. There are lexical differences between the various schools, influence of the local oral language (German, French, and Italian) which divides the language into three dialects, and a marked influence of French Sign Language

French Sign Language

French Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf in the nation of France. According to Ethnologue, it has 50,000 to 100,000 native signers....

 around Geneva. SignWriting

SignWriting

SignWriting is a system of writing sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in the shapes of the characters, which are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body, and in their spatial arrangement on the page, which does not follow a sequential order like the letters that...

 has been reported to be used.

Classification

Swiss Sign was established around 1828. Wittmann (1991) suspects that it may be part of the French Sign Language family

French Sign Language family

The French Sign Language family is a proposed language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language, among others....

, but it is not close and this is not easy to demonstrate.