Czech Sign Language

E802668

Czech Sign Language is the natural visual-gestural language used by the Deaf community in the Czech Republic, belonging to the French Sign Language family.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Czech Sign Language canonical 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf natural language
sign language
abbreviation ČZJ NERFINISHED
country Czech Republic
educationPolicy increasing support for bilingual education (Czech Sign Language and Czech)
hasCommunity Czech Deaf community
hasDialect regional variants within the Czech Republic
hasFeature non-manual markers for grammar
use of body posture
use of facial expressions
use of handshape
use of location
use of movement
use of orientation
hasGrammar own grammar distinct from spoken Czech
hasLexicon own lexicon distinct from spoken Czech
hasMorphology use of classifier constructions
use of spatial morphology
verb agreement in space
hasPhonology contrastive handshapes
contrastive locations
contrastive movements
contrastive orientations
non-manual phonological features
hasResearch studied in Czech universities and linguistic institutes
hasWordOrder relatively flexible word order
influencedBy Austrian Sign Language NERFINISHED
French Sign Language NERFINISHED
German Sign Language NERFINISHED
isNot not a signed form of spoken Czech
ISO639-3 cse
languageCode cse
languageFamily French Sign Language family
legalStatus recognized minority language in the Czech Republic
modality manual-visual
name Czech Sign Language NERFINISHED
nativeName český znakový jazyk NERFINISHED
notSameAs Czech language NERFINISHED
Signed Czech NERFINISHED
recognizedAs language of the Deaf community in Czech law
region Central Europe
usedBy Deaf community in the Czech Republic
children of Deaf adults in the Czech Republic
hard-of-hearing people in the Czech Republic
usedIn Deaf associations and cultural events in the Czech Republic
Deaf education in the Czech Republic
interpreting services in the Czech Republic
writingSystem HamNoSys (used in linguistic notation) NERFINISHED
SignWriting (used experimentally) NERFINISHED
no widely used standardized writing system

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

French Sign Language family hasMember Czech Sign Language