| Hong Kong Sign Language | |
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| 香港手語 Hong Kong Saujyu | |
| Native to | Hong Kong, Macau |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007)[1] |
Chinese Sign Language
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hks |
| Glottolog | hong1241 |
| ELP | Hong Kong Sign Language |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港手語 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港手语 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Hong Kong sign language | ||||||||||
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Hong Kong Sign Language (香港手語), alternatively romanized as Hong Kong Saujyu and popularly abbreviated in English as HKSL, is the deaf sign language of Hong Kong and Macau. It derived from the southern dialect of Chinese Sign Language, but is now an independent, mutually unintelligible language.[2]