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Encyclopedia > Chilean Sign Language
Chilean Sign Language
Spoken in: Chile
Total speakers: 845,849
Language family:
 Chilean Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: csg
ISO/FDIS 639-3: csg

Chilean Sign Language is a language used by Chile's 845,849 deaf people and 7 deaf institutions. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...


External links

  • Languages of Chile
  • Chilean Sign Language @ Ethnologue


 

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