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Hong Kong Sign Language


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    • HKSL (Hong Kong Sign Language)
    • Xianggang shou yu
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    • found: Work cat.: Tang, G. Hong Kong Sign Language : a trilingual dictionary with linguistic descriptions, c2007:t.p. (Xianggang shou yu) p. 1 (HKSL) p. 14 (HKSL and the sign language varieties from Shanghai share about 77% of the cognates in the basic vocabulary. At the lexical level, there are signs whose origin can be traced to the sign language varieties of the Mainland, Taiwan Sign Language, and signed Chinese. There appears to be little influence from American Sign Language, not to mention British Sign Language)
    • found: Wikipedia, Nov. 16, 2007(under Chinese Sign Language: Chinese Sign Language has many variations within Mainland China. The dialect used in Shanghai is the most prominent, but other dialects include: Hong Kong (HKSL), Taiwan Sign Language (which has 2 subdialects), and Tibetan Sign Language. The Shanghai dialect is also spoken in Malaysia and Taiwan; under List of sign languages, Asia/Pacific: Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL), listed separately from Chinese Sign Language (ZGS))
    • found: Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Continuing and Professional Studies website, Nov. 16, 2007:Programmes > Languages (Hong Kong Sign Language)
    • found: ASL University website, Nov. 16, 2007(At present Chinese sign language (CSL) exists with variations on the mainland China (Shanghai being most influential), in Taiwan (Chinese National Association of the Deaf, R.O.C.), and in Hong Kong ((HKSL))
    • found: Ethnologue, via WWW, Nov. 16, 2007(under Chinese Sign Language: Dialects: Shanghai Sign Language. There are several dialects, of which Shanghai is the most influential. Few signs of foreign origin. The varieties used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Malaysia may have changed.)
    • found: OCLC, Nov. 16, 2007(titles: Aspect in Hong Kong Sign Language; Causative alternation in Hong Kong Sign Language; Negation in Hong Kong Sign Language; Verb agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language; Xianggang shou yu = Hong Kong Sign Language)
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    • 2007-11-16: new
    • 2008-01-05: revised
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