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==Languages== {{tree list}} *BSL (sign attested from 1644 may not be BSL), with approximately 151,000 users<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bda.org.uk/bsl-statistics|title=British Sign Language (BSL) Statistics}}</ref> **Australian SL (1860. ASL and [[Irish Sign Language|ISL]] influences), with approximately 10 000 users <ref name="Australian Bureau of Statistics">{{cite web|url= http://www.vicdeaf.com.au/files/editor_upload/File/Research%20Reports/The%20distribution%20of%20Victorian%20sign%20language%20users.pdf|title= The distribution of Victorian sign language users|access-date= 12 March 2016|author= Australian Bureau of Statistics|date= 2013|publisher= [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]]|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160307105909/http://www.vicdeaf.com.au/files/editor_upload/File/Research%20Reports/The%20distribution%20of%20Victorian%20sign%20language%20users.pdf|archive-date= 7 March 2016|df= dmy-all}}</ref> *** Papua New Guinea Sign Language ({{circa|1990}}), which is a creole formed with Auslan, used by 30,000 people <ref>[http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2015-066.pdf ISO request part 1][http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2015-066_pgz.pdf ISO request part 2]</ref> **New Zealand SL (1800s), used by approximately 20,000 people <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/data-tables/total-by-topic.aspx|title=2013 Census totals by topic|website=archive.stats.govt.nz|language=en-nz|access-date=2019-05-28|archive-date=2017-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122042347/http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/data-tables/total-by-topic.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> **Northern Ireland SL (19th century - with [[American Sign Language]] and [[Irish Sign Language]] influences) **South African SL (somewhere between 1846 & 1881), used by perhaps 235,000 people **Maritime SL ({{circa|1860}}), with perhaps 100 extant users <ref name=Yoel>{{cite web |last=Yoel |first=Judith |title=Canada's Maritime Sign Language |url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4896 |website=Endangered Languages |access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> **? [[Swedish Sign Language family]] (1800) *** Swedish Sign Language (1800) *** Finnish SL (1850s, with local admixture) *** Finland-Swedish SL (1850s, a middle form between Finnish and Swedish SL) *** Eritrean Sign (1955, with much local admixture) *** Portuguese SL (1823) *** Cape Verdian Sign (1990s, with local admixture) {{tree list/end}} {{BANZSL family tree}}
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