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Hong Kong Sign Language
香港手語 Hong Kong Saujyu
Native toHong Kong, Macau
Native speakers
20,000 (2007)[1]
Language family
Chinese Sign Language
  • Shanghai Sign
    • Hong Kong Sign Language
Dialects
  • Macau Sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3hks
Glottologhong1241
ELPHong Kong Sign Language
Hong Kong Sign Language
Traditional Chinese香港手語
Simplified Chinese香港手语
Literal meaningHong Kong sign language

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 language.[2]

  1. ^ Hong Kong Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Fischer & Gong 2010, p. 499.

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