Did you know Chilean Sign Language is vulnerable?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Lengua de Señas Chilena, LSCh, Lenguaje Chileno de Signos, Lenguaje de Señas, LENSE
CLASSIFICATION		Sign Language, South American
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		csg
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "While Chilean Sign Language is the primary language of communication for most deaf people, widely varying degrees of bilingualism (spoken and written) in Spanish [spa] are common. Spanish literacy for access to mainstream society and employment is valued."

			18th		2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition				Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig		SIL International			Dallas, Texas					http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.						21,000	2011	10000-99999	(Parks, Parks, and Williams)					Spanish [spa]				"While Chilean Sign Language is the primary language of communication for most deaf people, widely varying degrees of bilingualism (spoken and written) in Spanish [spa] are common. Spanish literacy for access to mainstream society and employment is valued."			Vulnerable (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	10			12				Chile	"Scattered."
						Glottolog														http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.																															-32.78,-70.67

Chilean Sign Language