There are one or two known sign languages in Myanmar. There are three schools for the deaf in the country: the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf in Yangon (est. 1904), the School for the Deaf, Mandalay (est. 1964), and the Immanuel School for the Deaf in Kalay (est. 2005). At least in Yangon, instruction in oral, in the Burmese language, with sign used to support it. The sign of Yangon and Mandalay is different, but it's not clear if they are one language or two.[2] Influences on the language(s) include ASL in all schools, as well as Korean Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, Thai Sign Language, and possibly a local substratum. A government project was set up in 2010 to establish a national sign language with the aid of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf.[3]
Two manual alphabets are in use in Yangon: the American manual alphabet, which may or may not be well known, and a Burmese-based alphabet taught in the 1970s and 1980s.[4]
Burmese Sign Language
Myanmar Sign Language
Signers
270,000 (2021)[1]
Language family
ASL?
Burmese Sign Language
Dialects
(Yangon) Rangoon
Mandalay
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ysm
Glottolog
myan1234
^ abBurmese Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Nobutaka Kamei, 2004. "Sign language in Myanmar: On e language or two?" In Sign languages of Asia,'' vol. 5:10–19. Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies.
^Mori, S. "Pluralization: An Alternative to the Existing Hegemony in JSL." Deaf around the World: The Impact of Language (2011): 333-38.
^Watkins, Justin (2010) "Sign language in Burma: two Burmese finger spelling systems used in Yangon." In Burma Studies Conference 2010: Burma in the Era of Globalization, 6–9 July 2010, Université de Provence, Marseille.
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