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Taiwan Sign Language (TSL; Chinese: 台灣手語; pinyin: Táiwān Shǒuyǔ) is the sign language most commonly used by the deaf and hard of hearing in Taiwan.

Taiwan Sign Language
Taiwan Ziran Shouyu
Native to	Taiwan
Native speakers	20,000 (2004)[1]
Language family	Japanese Sign Taiwan Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tss
Glottolog	taiw1241

History

The beginnings of Taiwan Sign Language date from 1895.[2]

The origins of TSL developed from Japanese Sign Language during Japanese rule. TSL is considered part of the Japanese Sign Language family.[3]

TSL has some mutual intelligibility with both Japanese Sign Language and Korean Sign Language; it has about a 60% lexical similarity with JSL.[2]

There are two main dialects of TSL centered on two of the three major sign language schools in Taiwan: one in Taipei, the other in Tainan City. There is a variant based in Taichung, but this sign language is essentially the same as the Tainan school.

After the retrocession of Taiwan to the ROC, Taiwan absorbed an influx of Chinese Sign Language users from mainland China who influenced TSL through teaching methods and loanwords.[2]

Serious linguistic research into TSL began in the 1970s and is continuing at present. The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics was held on March 1–2, 2003, at National Chung Cheng University in Minxiong, Chiayi, Taiwan.

Functional markers

TSL, like other sign languages, incorporates nonmanual markers with lexical, syntactic, discourse, and affective functions. These include brow raising and furrowing, frowning, head shaking and nodding, and leaning and shifting the torso.[4]

In popular culture

The 2020 psychological-thriller The Silent Forest uses a large amount of the Taipei variant of TSL in the dialogue.[5]

Notes

References

Further reading

• Sasaki, Daisuke. (2007). "Comparing the lexicons of Japanese Sign Language and Taiwan Sign Language: a preliminary study focusing on the difference in the handshape parameter," Sign Language in Contact: Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities (David Quinto-Pozos, editor). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 9781563683565; OCLC 154789790
• Smith, Wayne H. Taiwan Sign Language research: an historical overview. Language and Linguistics (Taipei) 6.2 (2005): 187–215. Online free access
• Moratto, Riccardo. (2020). Taiwan Sign Language Interpreting: Theoretical Aspects and Pragmatic Issues. New York: Peter Lang.

External links

• TSL Online Dictionary (in English and Traditional Chinese)
• Sign Language Dictionary from Ministry of Education Republic of China (Taiwan)(in traditional Chinese)

На других языках

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- [en] Taiwan Sign Language

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[es] Lengua de señas taiwanesa

La lengua de señas taiwanesa (en chino tradicional, 台灣手語; pinyin, Táiwān Shǒuyǔ) es la lengua de señas más utilizada por la comunidad sorda de Taiwán. Hacia 2005, el lingüista Wayne H. Smith estimaba que la lengua de señas taiwanesa poseía alrededor de 30 000 usuarios,[1] aunque la base de datos Ethnologue considera que este número se encuentra en descenso.[2] La lengua de señas taiwanesa guarda gran parecido e inteligibilidad con la lengua de señas japonesa y la lengua de señas coreana, formando todas ellas la familia lingüística de la lengua de señas japonesa.[1][3]

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[fr] Langue des signes taïwanaise

La langue des signes taïwanaise (en chinois : 台灣手語 ; pinyin : Táiwān shǒuyǔ) est la langue des signes utilisée par les personnes sourdes de Taïwan et leurs proches.

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[ru] Тайваньский жестовый язык

Тайваньский жестовый язык (кит. трад. 台灣自然手語, пиньинь Táiwān zìrán shǒuyǔ, палл. Тайвань цзыжань шоуюй) — жестовый язык, который наиболее часто используется на Тайване. Относится к семье японского жестового языка[2]. Малоизучен, как и все жестовые языки Восточной Азии[3].

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