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Taiwan Sign Language information


Taiwan Sign Language
Taiwan Ziran Shouyu
Native toTaiwan
Native speakers
20,000 (2004)[1]
Language family
Japanese Sign
  • Taiwan Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3tss
Glottologtaiw1241

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.

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Taiwan Sign Language

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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...

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Languages of Taiwan

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The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan...

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Chinese Sign Language

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Taiwanese Sign Language and is known in Taiwan as Wénfǎ Shǒuyǔ (simplified Chinese: 文法手语; traditional Chinese: 文法手語; lit. 'grammatical sign language')...

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Japanese Sign Language family

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(JSL) Korean Sign Language (KSL) Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL) There is little difficulty in communication across the three languages. The first Japanese...

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Sign language

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

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Japanese Sign Language

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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...

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List of sign languages

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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...

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Taiwan

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the Taiwan Sign Language". As of 2019, policies on national languages are in early stages of implementation, with Hakka and indigenous languages designated...

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Contact sign

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contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between deaf individuals using a sign language and hearing...

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Taiwanese Mandarin

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Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu (Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'National language') or Huayu (華語; Huáyǔ; 'Mandarin language'), is...

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National language

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national language in Taiwan is legally defined as "a natural language used by an original people group of Taiwan and the Taiwan Sign Language". This includes...

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List of official languages

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Tamil) Taiwan (using Traditional Chinese characters; other official languages of Taiwan are Formosan languages, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka and Taiwan Sign Language...

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Taiwanese indigenous peoples

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Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines or Gaoshan people...

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List of official languages by country and territory

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Refers to the Tjwao dialect See Zimbabwean sign languages In the United States of America, English is the language of the Declaration of Independence, the...

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Languages of Canada

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000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...

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Stop sign

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continuing past the sign. In many countries, the sign is a red octagon with the word STOP, in either English or the national language of that particular...

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Classifier constructions in sign languages

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In sign languages, the term classifier construction (also known as classifier predicates) refers to a morphological system that can express events and...

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Languages of the United States

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creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...

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Manually coded language

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grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages. Unlike the sign languages that have evolved naturally...

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Dollar sign

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"peso" and "dollar". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in the Portuguese language. The sign is also used in several compound currency symbols...

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Chinese language romanization in Taiwan

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used in Taiwan (officially the Republic of China). The first Chinese language romanization system in Taiwan, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, was developed for Taiwanese by Presbyterian...

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Languages of Papua New Guinea

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country's lingua franca. Papua New Guinean Sign Language became the fourth officially recognised language in May 2015, and is used by the deaf population...

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At sign

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The at sign, @, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), now seen more widely in email...

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Taiwanese people

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and speak Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, or indigenous Taiwanese languages as a mother tongue. Taiwanese people may also refer to the indigenous peoples of...

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Austronesian languages

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exclusively in Taiwan. The Formosan languages of Taiwan are grouped into as many as nine first-order subgroups of Austronesian. All Austronesian languages spoken...

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Yield sign

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English language and excludes indirect translations from other languages. A black triangle (within the standard down-arrow-shape of stop signs) was a symbol...

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Language interpretation

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principal language, such as French Sign Language (FSL) to spoken French and Spanish Sign Language (SSL) to spoken Spanish. Multilingual sign language interpreters...

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Taiwan Railway

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Taiwan Railway (TR) is a state-owned conventional railway in Taiwan. It is operated by the Taiwan Railway Corporation under the supervision of the Ministry...

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List of Taiwanese inventions and discoveries

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the sign language most commonly used by the deaf and hard of hearing in Taiwan. Taiwanese Braille is the braille script used in Taiwan for Taiwanese Mandarin...

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