New Zealand Sign Language

main language of the deaf community in New Zealand
Intangible sign_language Q36239
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New Zealand Sign Language

Summary

New Zealand Sign Language is a sign language[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of sign_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (217 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • New Zealand Sign Language is in the country of New Zealand[3].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's video is recorded as Ed Sheeran's Shivers In NZSL.webm[4].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's instance of is recorded as sign language[5].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's instance of is recorded as language[6].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's instance of is recorded as modern language[7].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as nzs[8].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's subclass of is recorded as BANZSL[9].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's IETF language tag is recorded as nzs[10].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's Commons category is recorded as New Zealand Sign Language[11].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -41.2, 'lon': 174}[12].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03t17x[13].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's topic's main category is recorded as Category:New Zealand Sign Language[14].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 419.93[15].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+20200'}[16].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 743102[17].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's Glottolog code is recorded as newz1236[18].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's WALS lect code is recorded as nzs[19].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's Ethnologue.com language code is recorded as nzs[20].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'New Zealand Sign Language'}[21].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'mi', 'text': 'te reo Turi'}[22].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'NZSL'}[23].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's has part is recorded as two-handed manual alphabet[24].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133076369[25].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's icon is recorded as Sw-nzsl.png[26].
  • New Zealand Sign Language's Quora topic ID is recorded as New-Zealand-Sign-Language[27].

Why It Matters

New Zealand Sign Language ranks in the top 2% of sign_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (217 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wals.info. wals.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . World Atlas of Language Structures. Retrieved . wals.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . slianz.org.nz. Retrieved . slianz.org.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Quora. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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