Czech Sign Language

{{Short description|Deaf sign language of Czech Republic}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Czech Sign Language

| states = Czech Republic

| region = Central Europe

| speakers = 12,000

| date = 2011 census

| ref = e18

| speakers2 = 10,000 (2014)

| familycolor = Sign

| fam1 = French Sign

| fam2 = Austro-Hungarian Sign

| iso3 = cse

| glotto = czec1253

| glottorefname = Czech Sign Language

| nativename = Český znakový jazyk

}}

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Czech Sign Language ({{Langx|cs|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.{{cite web| url = http://www.ethnologue.com/language/cse| title = Czech Sign Language {{!}} Ethnologue}} Despite the similarity of oral Czech and Slovak, it is not particularly close to Slovak Sign Language.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}