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List of Sign Languages By Number Of Native Signersreport

  • [Language]: Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: Related to Nepalese Sign Language and possibly other sign languages of the region
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: No legal recognition. Native to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 1,500,000 in India (2008)

  • [Language]: American Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: Old French Sign Language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]:
    [Ethnologue estimate]: ≈ 500,000 in the USA

  • [Language]: Brazilian Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: Language isolate
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Legally recognized by law 10.436, April 24, 2002 - Native to Brazil.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 200,000 (2010)

  • [Language]: Russian Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: French Sign Language family
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Bulgaria; partly in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 120,000 (2010 census)

  • [Language]: Japanese Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: JSL Family
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to Japan.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 60,000 (no date) or 320,000 (1986)

  • [Language]: Mexican Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: French Sign Language family
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to Urban Mexico.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 130,000 (2010 projection)

  • [Language]: French Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: French Sign Language family. Descended from Old French Sign Language
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to France. Spoken in Switzerland, Mali, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Togo, Vietnam
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 100,000 (2019)

  • [Language]: British Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: BANZSL
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to United Kingdom.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 80,000 (2014)

  • [Language]: German Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: German Sign Language family
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to Germany.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 80,000 (2014)

  • [Language]: Malaysian Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: French: ASL
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]:
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 60,000 (2013)

  • [Language]: Spanish Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: Unknown origin.
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Officially recognized by Spanish Government. Native to Spain except Catalonia and Valencia.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 45,000 (1994)

  • [Language]: Polish Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: German Sign Language family
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to Poland.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 38,000 to 50,000 signers (2014)

  • [Language]: Italian Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: American
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Recognized language in Sicily.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 40,000 (2014)

  • [Language]: Yugoslav Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: French: Austro-Hungarian
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 22,000 (2010-2014)

  • [Language]: Hong Kong Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: Chinese
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]:
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 20,000 (2007)

  • [Language]: Dutch Sign Language
    [Family or origin]: French
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]:
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 15,000 (2019)

  • [Language]: Auslan
    [Family or origin]: BANZSL
    [Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population]: Native to Australia.
    [Ethnologue estimate]: 10,000 (2016 census)

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Of the more than 100 known sign languages in the world, only 17, and certainly the most widely used, are recorded in this random tool. Not only is the sign language differ from one country to another, but even the sign language of one country may be different and complicated due to different dialects.

Sign Language is produced for the communication needs of the deaf. It has been gradually accepted as a language of the deaf. The sign languages in the generator include those from Brazil, Mexico, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. They represent the everyday expressions of a group of language and sign language users. In addition, the generator maps out the number of people currently using Sign Language. Since then, with the progress of society, especially the emergence and development of deaf education, began to create gestures with the nature of language, which was produced on the basis of spoken and written language, sign language, which is closely associated with spoken language, has undergone various changes and developments.

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