Finnish Signbank
Finnish Signbank is a lexical database of Finnish Sign Language and Finland-Swedish Sign Language that is linked to the Corpus of Finnish Sign Language. It is developed by the Corpus Project of Finland’s Sign Languages (CFINSL) at the Sign Language Centre of the University of Jyväskylä in cooperation with the corpus and dictionary work of the Finnish Association of the Deaf.
On the basis of the Finnish Signbank two lexica are being created: the Kipo Corpus lexicon of the Finnish Association of the Deaf and a lexicon from the CFINSL project.
The Finnish Signbank runs on the software FinSL-signbank, a fork of NGT Signbank, which was in turn based on Auslan Signbank (cf. Global Signbank - NGT).
| Languages | Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language, Finnish |
|---|---|
| Size | 3000 signs |
| Linguistic Information | Citation form, gloss, information about source, Finnish translations, relations between glosses |
| Licence | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| Access | Public access via browsable homepage |
| Webpage | https://signbank.csc.fi/ |
| Institution | University of Jyväskylä |
Cite as
Signbank in general: The University of Jyväskylä, Sign Language Centre (2018). Finnish Signbank. Available in the Language Bank of Finland (Kielipankki) ttps://signbank.csc.fi. To be updated, [accessed dd.mm.yyyy].
VKK lexicon (Corpus FinSL): The University of Jyväskylä, Sign Language Centre (2018). The VKK-lexicon (Corpus FinSL) [online database]. Available in the Language Bank of Finland (Kielipankki) https://signbank.csc.fi. To be updated, [accessed dd.mm.yyyy].
Kipo corpus lexicon: The Finnish Association of the Deaf (2017). The lexicon of Kipo [online database]. Available in the Language Bank of Finland (Kielipankki) https://signbank.csc.fi. To be updated, [accessed dd.mm.yyyy].
This entry was last modified on 10 January 2023.