Hong Kong
From AASL
| Name of the country/area | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Formal name of the country/area | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
| Country/area information | The World Factbook (CIA) |
| Wikipedia (English) |
Indigenous signs for "Hong Kong"
Illustrations in the literature
"Hong Kong" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 16.)
Spoken languages
Chinese
English
Sign languages
Related sign languages:
Population of Deaf/deaf people
The population of the signers of Hong Kong Sign Language: 20,000 (2007).
Legal status of sign languages
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
Hong Kong Association of the Deaf (WFD member, cited from WFD website)
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
Tang, Gladys. 2007. Hong Kong Sign Language : A Trilingual Dictionary with Linguistic Descriptions. The Chinese University Press.
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, Kuala Lumpur YMCA, Osaka YMCA eds. 1989. Speaking with Signs.(Fourth Version) Osaka: Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Languageand Malaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, The Society for the Deaf in Selangor and the Federal Teritory, Osaka YMCA eds. 1984. Speaking with Signs.(Third Version) Osaka: OsakaYMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language andMalaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
1980. Speaking with Signs.(Second Version) Osaka:Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
1979. Speaking with Signs.(Book One) Hong Kong:Chinese YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
Goodstadt, Rose Yin-Chee. 1972. Speaking with signs; a sign language manual for Hongkong's deaf. Hong Kong: Government Printer.
Bibliography
Tang, Gladys. 2005. Questions and negation in Hong Kong Sign Language. In : In: Zeshan, Ulrike. ed. Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press. 198-.
Tang, Gladys, Scholastica Lam, Jafi Lee and Denise Chan. 2005. Effective learning: a Deaf Sign Language perspective. In: Proceedings of Hong Kong Red Cross Special Education & Rehabilitation Service 50th Anniversary International Conference 2004. 81-92.
Osugi, Yutaka. 2004. The ongoing project on "Practical dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages". In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 53(2004.09):12-20. [Including information of Asia (general), Cambodia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam ]
Tam, Pui-ying and Ingrid Tsui. 2000. Hearing disabilities: much more should be done: a review of the status of the deaf and hearing-impaired in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Civic Exchange.
Sze, Yim Binh Felix. 2000. Word Order of Hong Kong Sign Language. In : Baker, Anne, Beppie van den Bogaerde and Onno Crasborn eds. Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. 2003. Hamburg: Signum Verlag. 163-192.
Kobayashi, Masayuki. 2000. Deaf in Asia(7) : Hong Kong. In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 36(2000.06) :60-63.
Yau Shun-Chiu. 1996. The weight of tradition in the formation of the name signs of the deaf in China. In Diogenes 44 (175) 55-65.
Yau Shun-Chiu. 1994. Sign languages in Asia. In: Asher, R. E. and JMY Simpson eds. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 7: 3921-3922.
Hong Kong Society for the Deaf. 1993. Hong Kong Society for the Deaf: silver jubilee commemorative issue. Edited by Lai, Boon Lap et al. Hong Kong. (In English and Chinese).
Yau Shun-Chiu. 1991. La langue des signes chinoise. In : Cahiers de linguistique Asie orientale. 20 (1) 138-142.
Kwan, Eva W. 1987. Hong Kong. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York : McGraw-Hill. vol.2. 73-75.
Yau Shun-Chiu. 1977. The Chinese Signs: lexicon of the standard sign language for the deaf in China. Hong Kong: Chiu Ming Publishing Co.
Goodstadt, Rose Yin-Chee. 1970. Speaking with Signs: a sign language manual for Hong Kong's deaf. Hong Kong: Government Printer.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Fingeralphabet Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapur, Taiwan
Notes
| Asia (general) | Asia (general) |
|---|---|
| East Asia | China | Japan | Mongolia | North Korea | South Korea |
| Southeast Asia | Brunei | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam |
| South Asia | Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka |
| West Asia | Afghanistan |
| Areas and others | Hong Kong | Macau | Taiwan |
