Persian Sign Language is the sign language used by Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Iran. It is a true sign language, unlike the Baghcheban phonetic hand alphabet, which is a form of cued speech.
References
^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Persian Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Scholarly literature
Barkoky, Alaa, and Nasrollah M. Charkari. Static hand gesture recognition of Persian sign numbers using thinning method. Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on. IEEE, 2011.
Karami, Ali, Bahman Zanj, and Azadeh Kiani Sarkaleh. Persian sign language (PSL) recognition using wavelet transform and neural networks. Expert Systems with Applications 38.3 (2011): 2661-2667.
^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. ^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages.
