Czech Sign Language

Czech Sign Language (Czech: 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.^[2] Despite the similarity of oral Czech and Slovak, it is not particularly close to Slovak Sign Language.^{[citation needed]}

Czech Sign Language
Český znakový jazyk
Native to	Czech Republic
Region	Central Europe
Native speakers	12,000 (2011 census)[1] 10,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	French Sign Austro-Hungarian Sign Czech Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cse
Glottolog	czec1253
ELP	Czech Sign Language

Location of the Czech Republic