Hong Kong Sign Language
From AASL
| Language name | Hong Kong Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Region | Hong Kong |
Language name
Hong Kong Sign Language
(Indigenous names) Heung Kong Sau Yue
Region
Population of signers
20,000 (2007).
Language family
Dialects
Linguistic characteristics
History
Related sign languages
Related spoken languages
Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Tang, Gladys. 2007. Hong Kong Sign Language : A Trilingual Dictionary with Linguistic Descriptions. The Chinese University Press.
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, Kuala Lumpur YMCA, Osaka YMCA eds. 1989. Speaking with Signs.(Fourth Version) Osaka: Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Languageand Malaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, The Society for the Deaf in Selangor and the Federal Teritory, Osaka YMCA eds. 1984. Speaking with Signs.(Third Version) Osaka: OsakaYMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language andMalaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
1980. Speaking with Signs.(Second Version) Osaka:Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
1979. Speaking with Signs.(Book One) Hong Kong:Chinese YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
Goodstadt, Rose Yin-Chee. 1972. Speaking with signs; a sign language manual for Hongkong's deaf. Hong Kong: Government Printer.
Bibliography
Tang, Gladys. 2005. Questions and negation in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : In: Zeshan, Ulrike. ed. Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press. 198-.
Osugi, Yutaka. 2004. The ongoing project on "Practical dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages". In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 53(2004.09):12-20. [Including information of Asia (general), Cambodia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam ]
Sze, Yim Binh Felix. 2000. Word Order of Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Baker, Anne, Beppie van den Bogaerde and Onno Crasborn eds. Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. 2003. Hamburg: Signum Verlag. 163-192.
Kobayashi, Masayuki. 2000. Deaf in Asia(7) : Hong Kong. In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 36(2000.06) :60-63.
Goodstadt, Rose Yin-Chee. 1970. Speaking with Signs: a sign language manual for Hong Kong's deaf. Hong Kong: Government Printer.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Related pages
Links
Notes
| East Asia | Amami O Shima Sign Language | Chinese Sign Language | Japanese Sign Language | Korean Sign Language : North Korea | Korean Sign Language : South Korea | Mongolian Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Southeast Asia | Bali Sign Language | Ban Khor Sign Language | Benkala Sign Language | Hill Country Sign Language | Indonesian Sign Language | Kuala Lumpur Sign Language | Laos Sign Language | Malaysian Sign Language | Original Bangkok Sign Language | Original Chiangmai Sign Language | Penang Sign Language | Philippine Sign Language | Selangor Sign Language | Singapore Sign Language | Thai Sign Language | Vietnamese Sign Language |
| South Asia | Bengali Sign Language | Jhankot Sign Language | Jumla Sign Language | Indian Sign Language | Indo-Pakistan Sign Language | Naga Sign Language | Nepalese Sign Language | Sri Lankan Sign Language |
| West Asia | Afghan Sign Language |
| Areas and others | Hong Kong Sign Language | Macao Sign Language | Taiwanese Sign Language |
