Chilean Sign Language

Chilean Sign Language
Lengua de Señas Chilena
Native toChile
Signers21,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3csg
Glottologchil1264
ELPChilean Sign Language

Chilean Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas chilena, LSCh) is the sign language of Chile's seven deaf institutions. It is used by people all over Chile and is the primary language used by the deaf community, being used for television interpretations. There is variation within the language depending on factors such as geographical location, age, and educational background.[2]

  1. ^ Chilean Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Parks, Elizabeth; Parks, Jason; Williams, Holly (2011). "A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Deaf People of Chile" (PDF). SIL International. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-09-10.