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- The Tibetan Sign Language Project, staffed by members of the local deaf club, was set up under the supervision of Handicap International in 2001 to create a standardized language, based primarily on the existing sign language of Lhasa, as a replacement for the regional sign languages of Tibet.
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Language family. Deaf-community sign language. Language codes. ISO 639-3. lsn. Glottolog. tibe1277. Tibetan Sign Language is the recently established deaf sign language of Tibet . Tibetan Sign is the first recognized sign language for a minority in China.
- Tibetic languages
Standard Tibetan and most other Tibetic languages are...
- Lhasa Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan (Tibetan: ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་, Wylie: Lha-sa'i skad,...
- Tibetic languages
Tibetan Sign Language: local: Thai Sign Language: ASL (TSL) "แบบสะกดนิ้วมือไทย" (incl. Hai Yai) Vietnamese sign languages: local (Hanoi Sign Language, Ho Chi Minh Sign Language, Haiphong Sign Language; some may be related to some of the Thai languages) Wanib Sign Language: village: PNG Yogyakarta Sign Language
The Tibetan language has its own script which it shares with Ladakhi and Dzongkha, and which is derived from the ancient Indian Brāhmī script. Starting in 2001, the local deaf sign languages of Tibet were standardized, and Tibetan Sign Language is now being promoted across the country.
Sign language. This article is about primary sign languages of the deaf. For signed versions of spoken languages, see manually coded language. Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words.
At the core of these has been a formalisation of various indigenous signs, gestures and other kinds of signed communication into TibSL – a process that began in 2000 and was led by a group of deaf and hard-of-hearing Tibetans. A signing community has since emerged in relation to this language, with Sonam as one of its actors.
