Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language
Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language , also known as "Saigon Sign Language", is the language of many deaf communities in southern Vietnam. This sign language was named Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language (HCMCSL) by Prof. Dr. Woodward, an American linguist who went to Vietnam in 1997 to research sign languages in Vietnam.[1] According to his research, there are three different sign languages in Viet Nam, which he named HCMCSL, Ha Noi Sign language (HNSL) and Hai Phong Sign Language(HPSL).[2] [3] He used the modified Swadesh list for sign language research. HCMCSL shares 54% rate of similarity in basic cored vocabulary with HPSL and 58% similarity in basic cored vocabulary with HNSL. HCMCSL's vocabulary has been influenced by the French Sign Language since the first school for deaf people in Viet Nam was established in Binh Duong [4] province by the French priest. One deaf man (Jacques Cam, also know as Nguyen Van Truong) was sent to France to study sign language there. Later, a group of Vietnamese Catholic nuns went to France to learn about deaf education.
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- ↑ Jepsen, Julie Bakken; Clerck, Goedele De; Lutalo-Kiingi, Sam; McGregor, William B. (2015-10-16). Sign Languages of the World: A Comparative Handbook. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9781614518174. Search this book on
- ↑ Emmorey, Karen (2013-04-15). "The Signs of Language Revisited". doi:10.4324/9781410604972.
- ↑ "List of sign languages and their abbreviations", Information Structure in Sign Languages, De Gruyter, pp. XXIII–XXVI, 2019-02-18, ISBN 9781501510045, retrieved 2019-10-18
- ↑ Hoa, Nguyen Thi; Woodward, James (2019-02-21), "Education and Services for Deaf People in Viet Nam", Deaf Education Beyond the Western World, Oxford University Press, pp. 195–210, ISBN 9780190880514, retrieved 2019-10-18
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