Malaysia

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Indigenous signs for "Malaysia"

Movies

Sign of country name "Malaysia" (Data offered by Deaf informants in Malaysia; movie made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)

Illustrations in the literature

"Malaysia" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 20.)

Spoken languages

Bahasa Malaysia

Sign languages

Malaysian Sign Language

Kuala Lumpur Sign Language

Penang Sign Language

Selangor Sign Language

Related sign languages:

American Sign Language

Chinese Sign Language

Population of Deaf/deaf people

• The population of the signers of Malaysian Sign Language: 24,000. The population of the signers of Penang Sign Language: 1,000, decreasing. 150 monolinguals. The population of the signers of Selangor Sign Language: 500, decreasing. (Ethnologue, 16th Edition)

• The National Government’s official number of Deaf people : 29,522. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.)

Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Malaysian Federation of the Deaf (MFD) (WFDmember; established in 1997. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.))

Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies

Education for the Deaf

Deaf Children with Additional Disabilities in Developing Countries : Malaysia

Deaf communities and cultures

Religious activities by the Deaf

Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages

Sign language dictionaries

Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, Kuala Lumpur YMCA, Osaka YMCA eds. 1989. Speaking with Signs.(Fourth Version) Osaka: Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong 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 of Hong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language andMalaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]

Bibliography

World Federation of the Deaf and Swedish National Association of the Deaf. 2008. Global Survey Report. WFD Regional Secretariat for Asia and the Pacific (WFD RSA/P). Global Education Pre-Planning Project on the Human Rights of Deaf People. World Federation of the Deaf. Finland.

Nakayama, Sinichiro. 2004. Make a Comparison of Word Order between Sign Language and Language for writing : From study about sign language used in Asia and Africa. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 52(2004.06):22-26. [Including information of [ Ghana, Zambia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand ]

Hurlbut, Hope M. 2000. A Preliminary Survey of the Signed Languages of Malaysia. 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. 31-46.

Kobayashi, Masayuki. 1999. Deaf in Asia(4) : Malaysia. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 32(1999.06) :63-65.

Guan, Tan Chin. 1987. Malaysian Sign Language. In: Van Cleve, John V. ed. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. v.3. New York: McGraw-Hill. 93-94.

Researchers

History of sign language research

Events

Links

Sign Languages in Asia: Malaysia (Data offered by Deaf informants in Malaysia; movies made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)

Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Malaysia

Fingeralphabet Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapur, Taiwan

Sign Puddle Online 1.5 : Write Sign Language Dictionaries & Literature in Any Sign Language in the World...

YMCA DEAF CLUB

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