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The deaf sign language of the nations of the former Yugoslavia known variously as Croatian Sign Language (Hrvatski znakovni jezik HZJ) Kosovar Sign Language Serbian Sign Language Slovenian Sign Language or Yugoslav Sign Language (YSL) got its start when children were sent to schools for the deaf in Austro-Hungary in the early 19th century. The first two local schools opened in 1840 in Slovenia and in 1885 in Croatia.

family
Austrian Sign Language, French Sign Language family
spoken in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia

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