Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS; simplified Chinese: 中国手语; traditional Chinese: 中國手語; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shǒuyǔ) is the main sign language...

Taiwan Sign Language (TSL; Chinese: 台灣手語; pinyin: Táiwān Shǒuyǔ) is the sign language most commonly used by the deaf and hard of hearing in Taiwan. The...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

Malaysian Sign Language (Malay: Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia, or BIM) is the principal language of the deaf community of Malaysia. It is also the official sign language...

background in Shanghainese Sign Language (SSL) and together with a group of Chinese merchants, the Singapore Chinese Sign School for the deaf was opened...

the standard language/national variety of Mainland China, on the other. Thus it has also been called Hong Kong-style Chinese (Chinese: 港式中文; pinyin:...

perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...

Hong Kong Sign Language (Chinese: 香港手語; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 sau2 jyu5), abbreviated as HKSL, is the deaf sign language of Hong Kong and Macau. It derived...

simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties...

standard was announced by the Chinese government in 2004. The Chinese government press agency Xinhua said that Chinese Sign Language was not practical because...

of sign languages are spoken throughout Asia. These include the Japanese Sign Language family, Chinese Sign Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, as...

Japan. China is not a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Despite the fact that Chinese is one of the six official languages of...

The following are sign languages reported to be used by at least 10,000 people. Additional languages, such as Chinese Sign Language, are likely to have...

sign language used in China.[citation needed] It is split into two dialects: Southern Chinese Sign Language and Northern Chinese Sign Language with Northern...

of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are...

The languages of Singapore are English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main...

Japanese Sign Language (日本手話, nihon-shuwa), also known by the acronym JSL, is the dominant sign language in Japan and is a complete natural language, distinct...

into Chinese Sign Language. While the five digits on one hand can easily express the numbers one through five, six through ten have special signs that...

German Sign Language (urban) Old French Sign Language (urban) Lyons Sign Language (urban) Japanese Sign Language (school?) Chinese Sign Language (school)...

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...

spoken language, the aboriginals who speak aboriginal languages; as well as Mainland Chinese immigrated in 1949 whose native tongue may be any Chinese variant...

for identifying and describing home-based sign systems. She states that home signs differ from sign languages in that they: do not have a consistent meaning-symbol...

eds. (2006). "VII、邮政". 中国手语日常会话 (in Chinese). 北京: 华夏出版社. p. 88. ISBN 9787508038247. "China". ASL Sign Language Dictionary. Princeton University. Archived...

Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...

in the Nunavut legislature in 2008. Chinese Sign Language has no formal legal protection. Chilean Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de Señas Chilena or...

Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi...

Literary language used in: the People's Republic of China , the Republic of China , the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , Korea , and Japan Chinese Sign Language...

The machine translation of sign languages has been possible, albeit in a limited fashion, since 1977. When a research project successfully matched English...

shaka sign is similar in shape to the letter Y in the American manual alphabet in American Sign Language or the sign for number six in the Chinese hand...

Japan, China and the US. Unlike deaf sign languages, they are better understood as forms of symbolic gestural communication rather than languages, and some...