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Taiwan Sign Language

台灣手語

Taiwan Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Taiwan. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar, unrelated to the spoken languages around them.

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.

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.

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