International Sign
| International Sign | |
|---|---|
| Region | Contact between sign languages, international contact between deaf people |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ils |
| Glottolog | inte1259 |
International Sign (IS) is a pidgin sign language which is used in a variety of different contexts, particularly as an international auxiliary language at meetings such as the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) congress, in some European Union settings, and at some UN conferences, at events such as the Deaflympics, the Miss & Mister Deaf World, and Eurovision, and informally when travelling and socialising.
Linguists do not agree on what the term International Sign means precisely, and empirically derived dictionaries are lacking.