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ISL is a primary sign language and the native language of the approximately 6,500 deaf people living in the Republic and Northern Ireland, although British Sign Language (BSL) is used frequently in the latter. ISL is genetically closely related to French Sign Language (LSF), although BSL has had a major impact on the language due to televised BSL programmes, the migration of deaf people to the UK and co-operations of Deaf organizations in Ireland and the UK (Leeson & Grehan 2004). The exact origin of ISL is unknown, as the grammar of the language remains undocumented prior to the establishment of deaf schools in Ireland, starting around 1814 (Matthews 1996). Although the above reads like a short sketch of any other (spoken) language in the world that is more or less well documented and whose language family and linguistic typology have been analyzed, it is rather exceptional in the fields of sign linguistics and sign language typology. Actually, only a minority of the world’s (sign) languages has been documented so far and even fewer works have treated the typology of signed languages1 (Wilkinson 2009). The fact that Zeshan in 2008 still discusses the novelty of the field of sign language typology as well as possible methods, emphasizes the paucity of studies and knowledge about sign language typology. However, this is not surprising given that only a few sign languages have been documented so far and, even for those sign languages that have been studied, an imbalance towards Western sign languages persists. Most studies in sign linguistics focus on ASL and Western European sign languages. Other types, such as non-Western urban sign languages and village sign languages, have been rarely studied and only came to the attention of the sign linguistic community in recent works like Nyst (2007; 2012), Schwager and Zeshan (2008). Studies like these have revealed the falsity of some claims about the universality of certain linguistic features of signed languages. The use of space and spatial time lines that were believed to exist in all sign languages and have been proven not to, is only one example. A broader knowledge of the genealogy of signed languages (of which only little is known) or the different types of sign languages in the world might help to solve typological questions related to sign languages, which remain very controversial to date.

Chapter 2. The Linguistic Setup of Sign Languages – The Case of Irish Sign Language (ISL)