New Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) is the natural language of the Deaf community in New Zealand. NZSL is a visual-gestural language, which conveys ideas by signs, facial expressions, body language and lip patterns and has its own grammar, rules and sentence structures, which is different from English or Maori. It means that if you follow English words in signs, it will be lost in meanings or concepts.
NZSL has originally developed over the century from British Sign Language roots and home-made and school signs. Today, there are rich variations in the use and growth in NZSL due to many factors.
Interested to learn New Zealand Sign Language? To get information about local NZSL classes, select a region at top of this page and click on your area.
Advertising Classes on website
NZSL classes can be listed on the website at NO charge for NZSLTA members. Community Centres or other Education institutions will need to contact the National Administrator for further details on advertising classes.
Click here to contact the National Administrator.
