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{{Use Canadian English|date = February 2019}} {{short description|Sign language used predominately in France and French-speaking Switzerland}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2011}} {{Infobox language | name = French Sign Language | image = French signs language (LSF).jpg | imagescale = | imagecaption = LSF in [[French manual alphabet]] | nativename = ''Langue des signes française'' | states = [[France]], [[Switzerland]] | speakers = {{sigfig|103,405|2}} | date = 2019 | ref = e25 | speakers_label= Signers | familycolor = sign | fam1 = [[French Sign Language family|Francosign]] | ancestor = [[Old French Sign Language|Old French Sign]] | dia1 = Marseille Sign Language{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} | iso3 = fsl | lc1 = ssr | ld1 = Swiss French SL | glotto = fren1243 | glottoname = French Sign Language | glotto2 = swis1241 | glottoname2 = Swiss-French Sign Language | ELP = 7360 | ELPname = Swiss-French Sign Language }} '''French Sign Language''' ({{langx|fr|langue des signes française}}, '''LSF''') is the [[sign language]] of [[Deafness in France|deaf and hard-of-hearing people in France]] and in [[Romandy|French-speaking parts]] of [[Switzerland]]. According to ''[[Ethnologue]]'', it has 100,000 native signers. French Sign Language is related and partially ancestral to [[Dutch Sign Language]] (NGT), [[Flemish Sign Language]] (VGT), [[Belgian-French Sign Language]] (LSFB), [[Irish Sign Language]] (ISL), [[American Sign Language]] (ASL), [[Quebec Sign Language|Quebec (also known as French Canadian) Sign Language]] (LSQ), [[Brazilian Sign Language]] (LSB or Libras) and [[Russian Sign Language]] (RSL).
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