Burmese sign language

Burmese Sign Language
Burmese Sign Language
Myanmar Sign Language
Signers	270,000 (2021)
Language family	ASL? Burmese Sign Language;
Dialects	( Rangoon; Mandalay;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ysm
Glottolog	myan1234

There are one or two known

Australian Sign Language, Thai Sign Language, and possibly a local substratum. A government project was set up in 2010 to establish a national sign language with the aid of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf.^[3]

Two manual alphabets are in use in

Myanmar Sign LanguageSigners270,000 (2021)^[1]

Language family

ASL?

Burmese Sign Language

Dialects

(

Rangoon

Mandalay

Language codesISO 639-3ysmGlottologmyan1234

References

^ ^a ^b Burmese Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Nobutaka Kamei, 2004. "Sign language in Myanmar: On e language or two?" In Sign languages of Asia,'' vol. 5:10–19. Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies.
^ Mori, S. "Pluralization: An Alternative to the Existing Hegemony in JSL." Deaf around the World: The Impact of Language (2011): 333-38.
^ Watkins, Justin (2010) "Sign language in Burma: two Burmese finger spelling systems used in Yangon." In Burma Studies Conference 2010: Burma in the Era of Globalization, 6–9 July 2010, Université de Provence, Marseille.

Relevant literature

Foote, Ellen. "Negotiating language in a deaf classroom in Myanmar: lessons for mother tongue education." Language, Culture and Curriculum 33, no. 4 (2020): 417-432.
Foote, Ellen. Sign Languages and Linguistic Citizenship: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Yangon Deaf Community. Routledge, 2020.

[e25-1] Burmese Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Nobutaka Kamei, 2004. "Sign language in Myanmar: On e language or two?" In Sign languages of Asia,'' vol. 5:10–19. Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies.

[3] Mori, S. "Pluralization: An Alternative to the Existing Hegemony in JSL." Deaf around the World: The Impact of Language (2011): 333-38.

[4] Watkins, Justin (2010) "Sign language in Burma: two Burmese finger spelling systems used in Yangon." In Burma Studies Conference 2010: Burma in the Era of Globalization, 6–9 July 2010, Université de Provence, Marseille.

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