What is Indian Sign Language?
{{Infobox language |name=Indian Sign Language |states=[[India]], [[Pakistan]], Bangladesh |region = |speakers=2.7&nbsp;million in India |date=2003 |ref=<!--don't update to e18: figure is not no. of signers-->e17 |speakers2=number in Pakistan and Bangladesh unknown<ref>The estimate of 5.9&nbsp;million from Ethnologue 18's reference, IMB, is the number of deaf people.</ref> |familycolor=sign |family=Possibly related to [[Nepalese Sign Language|Nepalese Sign]] |lc1=ins|ld1=Indian Sign Language |lc2=pks|ld2=Pakistani Sign Language |lc3=wbs|ld3=West Bengal Sign Language |glotto=indi1237 |glottoname=Indian SL |glottorefname=Indian Sign Language |glotto2=paki1242 |glottoname2=Pakistan SL |glottorefname2=Pakistan Sign Language |dia1=Bangalore-Madras Sign Language |dia2=Bombay Sign Language |dia3=Calcutta Sign Language |dia4=Delhi Sign Language |dia5=North West Frontier Province Sign Language |dia6=Punjab-Sindh Sign Language |dia7=[[Alipur Sign Language]] }} '''Indian Sign Language''' (ISL) is possibly the predominant sign language variety in South Asia, used by at least several hundred thousand deaf signers (2003). ==References== {{reflist}} {{Asia-stub}} [[Category:Sign languages]] [[Category:Languages of India]] [[Category:Languages of Pakistan]]