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  2. Chinese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    ISO 639-3. csl – Chinese Sign. Glottolog. nucl1761. Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS; simplified Chinese: 中国手语; traditional Chinese: 中國手語; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shǒuyǔ) is the official sign language of China. It is different from the Taiwanese Sign Language and is known in Taiwan as Wénfǎ Shǒuyǔ (simplified ...

  3. List of sign languages by number of native signers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Preservation of the Sign Language, George W. Veditz (1913) Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural ...

  5. Chinese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Wikipedia (traditional Chinese: 中 文 維 基 百 科; simplified Chinese: 中 文 维 基 百 科; pinyin: Zhōngwén Wéijī Bǎikē) is the written vernacular Chinese (a form of Mandarin Chinese) edition of Wikipedia. It has been run by the Wikimedia Foundation since 11 May 2001. [1]

  6. Chinese language - Wikipedia

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    Standard Chinese is the standard language of China (where it is called 普通话; pǔtōnghuà) and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore (where it is called either 华语; 華語; Huáyǔ or 汉语; 漢語; Hànyǔ). Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.

  7. Hong Kong Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Yue: Cantonese. Jyutping. hoeng1 gong2 sau2 jyu5. Hong Kong Sign Language (香港手語), alternatively romanized as Hong Kong Saujyu and popularly abbreviated in English as HKSL, is the deaf sign language of Hong Kong and Macau. It derived from the southern dialect of Chinese Sign Language, but is now an independent, mutually unintelligible ...

  8. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Makaton – a system of signed communication used by and with people who have speech, language or learning difficulties. Mofu-Gudur Sign Language. Monastic sign language. Signalong – international sign assisted communication techniques used to support children and adults with communication or learning difficulties.

  9. Chinese language law - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese language law [a] [1] is the first specialized law on spoken and written language in China, adopted at the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on October 31, 2000; it came into effect on January 1, 2001. The law stipulates the scope, norms and standards for the use of the country's common ...