Chinese Sign Language

Summary

Chinese Sign Language is a sign language^[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of sign_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (121 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Chinese Sign Language is in the country of People's Republic of China^[3].
• Chinese Sign Language's instance of is recorded as sign language^[4].
• Chinese Sign Language's instance of is recorded as modern language^[5].
• Chinese Sign Language's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as csl^[6].
• Chinese Sign Language's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh00002637^[7].
• Chinese Sign Language's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 15781613z^[8].
• Chinese Sign Language's IETF language tag is recorded as csl^[9].
• Chinese Sign Language's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 35, 'lon': 115}^[10].
• Chinese Sign Language's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02hxvhl^[11].
• Chinese Sign Language's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chinese Sign Language^[12].
• Chinese Sign Language's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 419.51^[13].
• Chinese Sign Language's Linguist List code is recorded as csl^[14].
• Chinese Sign Language's Glottolog code is recorded as chin1283^[15].
• Chinese Sign Language's WALS lect code is recorded as csl^[16].
• Chinese Sign Language's Ethnologue.com language code is recorded as csl^[17].
• Chinese Sign Language's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '中国手语'}^[18].
• Chinese Sign Language's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hant', 'text': '中國手語'}^[19].
• Chinese Sign Language's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'CSL'}^[20].
• Chinese Sign Language's FAST ID is recorded as 857293^[21].
• Chinese Sign Language's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CSL^[22].
• Chinese Sign Language's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133087328^[23].
• Chinese Sign Language's Quora topic ID is recorded as Chinese-Sign-Language^[24].
• Chinese Sign Language's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing^[25].
• Chinese Sign Language's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780947585^[26].
• Chinese Sign Language's Lingua Libre ID is recorded as Newton Mearns^[27].

Why It Matters

Chinese Sign Language ranks in the top 8% of sign_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (121 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]

It has been cited as an influence by Taiwanese Sign Language^[30], a sign language^[31], in Taiwan^[32] and Singapore Sign Language^[33], a sign language^[34], in Singapore^[35].

FAQs

Who did Chinese Sign Language influence?

Chinese Sign Language has been cited as an influence by Taiwanese Sign Language^[30] and Singapore Sign Language^[33].