Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language, also known as Sai Gon Sign Language, is the language of many deaf communities in a southern of
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
. This
sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...
was named Ho Chi Minh City Sign language by Prof. Dr. Woodward who is the first American linguistic came to Vietnam in 1986 to do a research about sign languages in Vietnam.
[{{Cite book, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZqnCgAAQBAJ&q=ho+CHi+minh+city+sign+language&pg=PA391, title=Sign Languages of the World: A Comparative Handbook, last1=Jepsen, first1=Julie Bakken, last2=Clerck, first2=Goedele De, last3=Lutalo-Kiingi, first3=Sam, last4=McGregor, first4=William B., date=2015-10-16, publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, isbn=9781614518174, language=en] It is about 50% cognate with the other sign languages of Vietnam, and its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by the
French Sign Language
French Sign Language (french: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to ''Ethnologue'', it has 100,000 native signers.
French Sign Language is relate ...
once taught in Vietnamese schools for the deaf.
References
Languages of Vietnam
Sign languages