Czech Sign Language

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Czech Sign Language
Český znakový jazyk
Native toCzech Republic
RegionCentral Europe
Native speakers
12,000 (2011 census)[1]
10,000 (2014)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3cse
Glottologczec1253
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Location of the Czech Republic

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] Despite the similarity of oral Czech and Slovak, it is not particularly close to Slovak Sign Language.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b Czech Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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