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British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language, or the British Sign Language (BSL) family, is a language family or grouping encompassing three related sign languages: British Sign Language, Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). The term BANZSL was coined informally by the linguists Trevor Johnston and Adam Schembri in the early 2000s. However, in 2024, Schembri remarked that the Wikipedia article on BANZSL had begun describing it with the more specific or authoritative meaning of "the language from which modern BSL and Auslan and New Zealand sign language have descended", a meaning that "took on a life of its own—something that we didn't intend". As a result, Schembri says he and Johnston have disowned the term due to pushback from Deaf communities, concerned that it is replacing the names of each of the three languages.

Languages
• BSL (sign attested from 1644 may not be BSL), with approximately 151,000 users • Australian SL (1860. ASL and ISL influences), with approximately 10 000 users • Papua New Guinea Sign Language (), which is a creole formed with Auslan, used by 30,000 people • Fiji Sign Language, an indigenous base with a large amount of Auslan vocabulary • New Zealand SL (1800s), used by approximately 20,000 people • Northern Ireland SL (19th century - with American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language influences) • South African SL (somewhere between 1846 & 1881), used by perhaps 235,000 people • Maritime SL (), with perhaps 100 extant users • ? Swedish Sign Language family (1800) • Swedish Sign Language (1800) • Finnish SL (1850s, with local admixture) • Finland-Swedish SL (1850s, a middle form between Finnish and Swedish SL) • Eritrean Sign (1955, with much local admixture) • Portuguese SL (1823) • Cape Verdian Sign (1990s, with local admixture) ==See also==
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