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Slovak Sign Language
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<p>The Slovak Sign Language is the <a href="/facts/Sign_language/Wjfl9Db6">sign language</a> of the <a href="/facts/Deaf/PT2xcLaX">deaf</a> community in <a href="/facts/Slovakia/gmJwpwM3">Slovakia</a>. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that Slovak, <a href="/facts/Czech_Sign_Language/2kj1U6R8">Czech</a>, and <a href="/facts/Hungarian_Sign_Language/keaChErW">Hungarian Sign</a> formed a cluster with <a href="/facts/Romanian_Sign_Language/nbRdJWS4">Romanian</a>, <a href="/facts/Bulgarian_Sign_Language/Wl26rA3l">Bulgarian</a>, and <a href="/facts/Polish_Sign_Language/pXgwccNW">Polish Sign</a>. </p><p>Despite the similarity of oral Slovak and Czech, SSL is not particularly close to <a href="/facts/Czech_Sign_Language/2kj1U6R8">Czech Sign Language</a>. </p>