Czech Sign Language
| Czech Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Český znakový jazyk | |
| Native to | Czech Republic |
| Region | Central Europe |
Native speakers | 12,000 (2011 census)[1] 10,000 (2014)[1] |
French Sign
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cse |
| Glottolog | czec1253 |
| ELP | Czech Sign Language |
Czech Sign Language (Czech: Český znakový jazyk, ČZJ) is the sign language of the deaf community in the Czech Republic. It presumably emerged around the time of the first deaf school in Bohemia (1786). It belongs to the French sign-language family and is partially intelligible with French sign language.[2] Both ČZJ and Slovak Sign Language are descendant from Austro-Hungarian Sign language.[3]
References
- 1 2 Czech Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ "Czech Sign Language | Ethnologue".
- ↑ Wittmann, Henri 1991, Classification linguistique des langues signées non vocalement, in Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée, Vol. 10, Nr. 1, Seiten 215–288, Online (PDF; 180 kB), retrieved 10 July 2013.
