Speaker Numbers

International Speaker Numbers according to

EGIDS (Ethnologue)	Source	UNESCO	Source	ELCAT (Endangered Languages Project)	Source
395 000		Site under maintenance (will be updated)		Not listed

National Speaker Numbers

Country	Language	National Speaker Number	Bases for Calculation	Year	Source
Belgium	German Sign Language (DGS)	Not available	Not available	Not available
Germany	German Sign Language (DGS)	Approx. 250 000 (not a census)	Language used	2025
Luxembourg	German Sign Language (DGS)	Unknown	Sign Language Users	2018

Endangerment

International Endangerment according to

UNESCO	Source	ELCAT (Endangered Languages Project)	Source
Site under maintenance (will be updated)		Not listed

National Endangerment according to EGIDS (Ethnologue)

Country	Language	Endangerment Level	Source
Belgium	German Sign Language (DGS)	Not listed
Germany	German Sign Language (DGS)	5 (Developing)
Luxembourg	German Sign Language (DGS)	6a* (Vigorous)

Pan-National Official Language in

Belgium

Germany

Luxembourg