Hanoi Sign | |
States: | Vietnam |
Speakers: | 39,000 |
Date: | 2015 |
Ref: | e25 |
Familycolor: | sign language |
Fam1: | (SE Asian sign area) |
Fam2: | Deaf-community sign language |
Fam3: | Vietnamese sign languages |
Iso3: | hab |
Glotto: | hano1243 |
Glottorefname: | Hanoi Sign Language |
Hanoi Sign Language is the deaf-community sign language of the city of Hanoi in Vietnam. It is about 50% cognate with the other sign languages of Vietnam, and its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by the French Sign Language once taught in Vietnamese schools for the deaf.