language: lls

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has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/lls
has gloss	eng: Lithuanian Sign Language (LtSL) is a sign language used in Lithuania by approximately 5,000 deaf persons, as well as some hard of hearing and hearing persons. Very little is known about its history before 1945. From 1945 to 1990 it was used along with Russian Sign Language and the two sign languages became very similar. Russian lip-patterns used with some LtSL signs indicate that the sign may have been originally borrowed from Russian Sign Language. When Lithuania became independent, its contacts with Russian Sign Language were almost cut off, and now it's developing as an independent language, with some influence from international signs.
lexicalization	eng: Lithuanian Sign Language
subclass of	(noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" language, linguistic communication