Signs for GDANSK, POLAND

Meaning: A port city on the Baltic coast of Poland; Danzig in German.

A loanword or borrowing from Polish Sign Language.

Q: Regarding the sign for Gdansk, Are you using an L handshape or a G handshape for this sign?

A: More like a "claw L" handshape.


Related signs: POLAND.

Deaf Culture and tidbits

Deaf History

Deaf school in Gdansk
Photo (1977) courtesy of Jolanta Lapiak.

This 19th century building used to be a school for the deaf (which is now the Museum of Kashubian-Pomeranian Literature and Music) in Wejherowo, Poland. Wejherowo is 39km (24 miles) from Gdansk.

Museum of Literature and Music Gdansk
Photo: http://magazynkaszuby.pl/ .

This 19th century neo-Gothic palace (formerly school for the deaf) is now the Museum of Kashubian-Pomeranian Literature and Music in Wejherowo, Poland. Amazingly, the windows haven't changed!

In 1921 the Pomeranian National Institute for the deaf and mute was established in Wejherowo. Ref

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