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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Indian Sign Language<br />
|states=[[India]], [[Pakistan]], Bangladesh<br />
|region =<br />
|speakers=2.7&nbsp;million in India<br />
|date=2003<br />
|ref=<!--don't update to e18: figure is not no. of signers-->e17<br />
|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><br />
|familycolor=sign<br />
|family=Possibly related to [[Nepalese Sign Language|Nepalese Sign]]<br />
|lc1=ins|ld1=Indian Sign Language<br />
|lc2=pks|ld2=Pakistani Sign Language<br />
|lc3=wbs|ld3=West Bengal Sign Language<br />
|glotto=indi1237<br />
|glottoname=Indian SL<br />
|glottorefname=Indian Sign Language<br />
|glotto2=paki1242<br />
|glottoname2=Pakistan SL<br />
|glottorefname2=Pakistan Sign Language<br />
|dia1=Bangalore-Madras Sign Language<br />
|dia2=Bombay Sign Language<br />
|dia3=Calcutta Sign Language<br />
|dia4=Delhi Sign Language<br />
|dia5=North West Frontier Province Sign Language<br />
|dia6=Punjab-Sindh Sign Language<br />
|dia7=[[Alipur Sign Language]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Indian Sign Language''' (ISL) is possibly the predominant sign language variety in South Asia, used by at least several hundred thousand deaf signers (2003).<br />
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