Chinese Sign Language

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...

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

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. There...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Mandarin-speaking regions of China and Taiwan has resulted in the language being one of the more frequently used varieties of Chinese among Chinese diaspora communities...

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:...