Jabbar Baghtcheban
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Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban (Persian
: جبار باغچه بان)) established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and is credited as the inventor of Persian
sign language
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Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
: جبار باغچه بان)) established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and is credited as the inventor of Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
sign language
Sign language
A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's...
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