Back Yezh ar Sinoù Kebekek Breton Lèngva di sègn quebechéśa EML زبان اشاره کبکی Persian Langue des signes québécoise French Lingua de sinais quebequesa Galician Quebec Sign Language HIF Lingua gesticulatoria Quebecensis Latin Lenga dij segn dël Québec PMS Língua de sinais quebequense Portuguese Квебекский жестовый язык Russian
| Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) | |
|---|---|
| Langue des signes québécoise | |
 | |
| Native to | Canada |
| Region | Quebec, parts of Ontario and New Brunswick. Some communities within francophone groups in other regions of Canada. |
Native speakers | 990 (2021)[1] L2 speakers: 6,195[1] |
| none si5s, ASLwrite | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | none |
Recognised minority language in | Ontario only in domains of: legislation, education and judiciary proceedings[2]
Government of Canada only on federal level, as a primary language of deaf persons in Canada [3] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fcs |
| Glottolog | queb1245 |
| ELP | Quebec Sign Language |
Quebec Sign Language (French: Langue des signes québécoise or du Québec, LSQ) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities used in francophone Canada, primarily in Quebec. Although named Quebec sign, LSQ can be found within communities in Ontario and New Brunswick as well as certain other regions across Canada. Being a member of the French Sign Language family, it is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF), being a result of mixing between American Sign Language (ASL) and LSF. As LSQ can be found near and within francophone communities, there is a high level of borrowing of words and phrases from French, but it is far from creating a creole language. However, alongside LSQ, signed French and Pidgin LSQ French exist, where both mix LSQ and French more heavily to varying degrees.
LSQ was developed around 1850[4] by certain religious communities to help teach children and adolescents in Quebec from a situation of language contact. Since then, after a period of forced oralism, LSQ has become a strong language amongst Deaf communities within Quebec and across Canada. However, due to the glossing of LSQ in French and a lack of curriculum within hearing primary and secondary education, there still exist large misconceptions amongst hearing communities about the nature of LSQ and sign languages as a whole, which negatively impacts policy making on a larger scale.
- ^ a b Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2022-02-09). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Canada [Country]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ Province of Ontario (2007). "Bill 213: An Act to recognize sign language as an official language in Ontario". Archived from the original on 2018-12-24. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
- ^ Naef, B.; Perez-Leclerc, M. (2019). "Legislative Summary of Bill C-81: An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada".
- ^ Frenette, Agathe (1 September 2007). "Tribune : La langue des signes québécoise" (in French). Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.