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Chinese Sign Language

sign language used in China and culturally related areas
Intangible sign_language Q1094190

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
sign language, modern language[3]
Country
People's Republic of China[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.000°, 115.000°[4]
Short name
CSL[7]
Ethnologue language status
5 Developing[8]
Native label
中国手语, 中國手語[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en CSL en ZGS en Chinese Sign en Chinese Sign Language cs čínský znakový jazyk de Chinesische Gebärdensprache fa زبان اشاره چینی fr langue des signes chinoise he שפת הסימנים הסינית hi चीनी सांकेतिक भाषा id Bahasa Isyarat Tiongkok it lingua dei segni cinese ja 中国手話 ko 중국 수어 nl chinese gebarentaal pt língua de sinais chinesa pt Língua Gestual Chinesa ru китайский жестовый язык tr Çin İşaret Dili tr csl
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Library of Congress authority ID
sh00002637
GND ID
1373550511
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15781613z
Deaf Movie Database language ID
chinese-sign-language, chinese-sign-langauge
Dewey Decimal Classification
419.51
Ethnologue.com language code
csl
Exact match
publications.europa.eu, data.linguistik.de
FAST ID
857293
Freebase ID
/m/02hxvhl
Glottolog code
chin1283
IETF language tag
csl
ISO 639-3 code
csl
Show all 19 identifiers +7
Lingua Libre ID
Newton Mearns
Linguist List code
csl
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780947585
Quora topic ID
Chinese-Sign-Language
Topic's main category
Category:Chinese Sign Language
WALS lect code
csl
Yale LUX ID
concept/8ec8fbe4-34b7-4543-ad79-d813ee0429fd

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🔗 Connections
Influenced 2
Taiwanese Sign Language, Singapore Sign Language
Instance of 2
sign language, modern language
Subtypes 2
Hong Kong Sign Language, Vietnamese sign languages
Country 1
People's Republic of China
Lingua Libre ID 1
Newton Mearns
← Language of work or name 1
jw.org
← Language used 1
People's Republic of China
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Summary

Chinese Sign Language is a sign language[1].

Why It Matters

It has been cited as an influence by Taiwanese Sign Language[9], a sign language[10], in Taiwan[11] and Singapore Sign Language[12], a sign language[13], in Singapore[14].

FAQs

Who did Chinese Sign Language influence?

Chinese Sign Language has been cited as an influence by Taiwanese Sign Language[9] and Singapore Sign Language[12].

Related Entities

People's Republic of China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wals.info. wals.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 15
    GND ID → 1373550511
    Deaf Movie Database language ID → chinese-sign-language, chinese-sign-langauge
    Wikipedia languages → ['en', 'fa', 'fr', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nap', 'pms', 'pt', 'roa_tara', 'ru',
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Deaf Movie Database language ID: chinese-sign-langauge, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/225055091|chinese sign langauge (#225055091)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-matc"
  2. 13w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Ethnologue language status → 5 Developing
    Aliases → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 35, 'lon': 115}
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||ro */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/45819|batch #45819]]: signlanguagero"
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