language: eso

Information
has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/eso
has gloss	eng: Estonian Sign Language (ESL, Eesti viipekeel) is the national sign language of Estonia. In 1998 there were about 4,500 signers out of a deaf population of 2000 and a hearing-impaired population ten times that number. It is widespread in the cities of Tallinn and Pärnu among deaf ethnic Estonians; deaf Russian Estonians in Tallinn use Russian Sign Language, Russians outside Tallinn tend to use a Russian–Estonian Sign Language pidgin, or may be bilingual. In its formative stages, Estonian Sign Language was influenced by Russian and Finnish Sign Language; for example, the ESL sign for butterfly developed from the Finnish sign for bird. There are several dialects, the most archaic of which is the Pärnu variety.
lexicalization	eng: Estonian 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

Meaning
Portuguese
has gloss	por: A Língua de Sinais da Estónia (ou ESL, em Portugal: Língua Gestual da Estónia) é a língua de sinais (pt: língua gestual) usada pela comunidade surda da Estónia, pelo que cerca de 2000 pessoas a usam como língua materna.
lexicalization	por: Língua de Sinais da Estónia