Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language (HCMCSL), also known as Sai Gon Sign Language, is the language of many deaf communities in the south of

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

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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 elements, no ...

started when James Woodward came to Ha Noi in 1997 to do research about sign languages in Vietnam. {{cite book , last=Woodward , first=James , last2=Thi Hoa , first2=Nguyen , last3=Dinh Mong Giang , first3=Nguyen , last4=Thi Thu Huong , first4=Le , last5=Ngoc Tu , first5=Luu , last6=Thu Van , first6=Ho , title=Sign Languages of the World , chapter=Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language , publisher=De Gruyter , date=25 September 2015 , doi=10.1515/9781614518174-021, editor-last1=Jepsen, editor-first1=Julie Bakken, editor-last2=Clerck, editor-first2=Goedele De, editor-last3=Lutalo-Kiingi, editor-first3=Sam, editor-last4=McGregor, editor-first4=William B., editor4-link=William B. McGregor, 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 (, LSF) is the sign language of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in France and in French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According to ''Ethnologue'', it has 100,000 native signers. French Sign Language is related and part ...

once taught in Vietnamese schools for the deaf.

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Languages of Vietnam Sign languages