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Indian Sign Language (ISL) is possibly the predominant sign language variety in South Asia, used by at least several hundred thousand deaf signers (2003).
| Indian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh |
Native speakers | 2.7 million in India (2003)[1] number in Pakistan and Bangladesh unknown[2] |
Possibly related to Nepalese Sign | |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:ins – Indian Sign Languagepks – Pakistani Sign Languagewbs – West Bengal Sign Language |
| Glottolog | indi1237 Indian SLpaki1242 Pakistan SL |
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- ↑ Indian Sign Language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Pakistani Sign Language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
West Bengal Sign Language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) - ↑ The estimate of 5.9 million from Ethnologue 18's reference, IMB, is the number of deaf people.
