| Language | Family or origin | Legal recognition and where spoken natively by significant population | Ethnologue estimate |
|---|
| Indo-Pakistani Sign Language | Related to Nepalese Sign Language and possibly others in south Asia | No legal recognition. Native to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh | 6,300,000 (2019) |
| Chinese Sign Language | Independent language family; not related to other sign language families | Legally recognized by China | 4,000,000 (2021) |
| Indonesian Sign Language | Based on French Sign Language family | Native to Indonesia | 900,000 (2016)[1] |
| Russian Sign Language | French Sign Language family | Native to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Bulgaria, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania | 715,000 (2014)[2] |
| Brazilian Sign Language | French Sign Language family | Legally recognized by law (10.436) in Brazil, on April 24, 2002[3] | 600,000 (2019) |
| Spanish Sign Language | possibly French Sign Language family,
according to others Language isolate | Officially recognized by Spanish Government. Native to Spain except Catalonia and Valencia | 523,000 (2017) |
| Egyptian Sign Language | Arab sign-language family | Native to Egypt | 474,000 (2014)[4] |
| American Sign Language | Old French Sign Language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language | Native to the United States and Anglophone Canada | 459,850[5] |
| Persian Sign Language | Language isolate | Native to Iran | 325,000 (2019)[6] |
| Turkish Sign Language | from Ottoman Sign Language | Native to Turkey | 300,000 (2019)[7] |
| Japanese Sign Language | JSL Family | Native to Japan. | 126,000 (2019) |
| Mexican Sign Language | French Sign Language family | Native to Urban Mexico. | 130,000 (2010 projection) |
| French Sign Language | French Sign Language family. Descended from Old French Sign Language | Native to France. Spoken in Switzerland, Mali, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Togo, Vietnam | 100,000 (2019) |
| German Sign Language | German Sign Language family | Native to Germany | 80,000 (2014) |
| British Sign Language | BANZSL | Native to United Kingdom. | 80,000 (2014) |
| Malaysian Sign Language | French: ASL | Native to Malaysia | 60,000 (2013) |
| Polish Sign Language | German Sign Language family | Native to Poland. | 38,000 to 50,000 (2014) |
| Italian Sign Language | French Sign Language family | Officially Recognized language in Sicily. Native to Italy | 40,000 (2014) |
| New Zealand Sign Language | BANZSL | An official language of New Zealand since 2006 | 23,000 (2018 census)[8] |
| Yugoslav Sign Language | French: Austro-Hungarian | Native to Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia | 22,000 (2010-2014) |
| Uruguayan Sign Language | French Sign Language family | Legally recognized in Uruguay since 2001 under Law 17.378.[9][10] | 20,000 (2019)[11] |
| Hong Kong Sign Language | Chinese | Native to Hong Kong | 20,000 (2007) |
| Dutch Sign Language | French | Native to Netherlands | 15,000 (2019) |
| Auslan | BANZSL | Native to Australia | 10,000 (2016 census) |