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Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia (KTBM), orManually Coded Malay, is a signed form of theMalay language recognized by the government inMalaysia and theMalaysian Ministry of Education. It aids teachers in teaching the Malay language to deaf students in formal education settings. It is not a language but amanually coded form of Malay. It was adapted fromAmerican Sign Language (orManually Coded English), with the addition of some local signs, plus grammatical signs to represent Malay affixation of nouns and verbs. It is used in Deaf schools to teach the Malay language.[citation needed]
The officialMalaysian Sign Language, known asBahasa Isyarat Malaysia, is the official sign language the Malaysian government recognizes to communicate with the deaf community, including on official broadcasts. It is a language in its own right and not a manual coding of the Malay language like KTBM. It has been found that Malaysian Sign Language is more effective in teaching students than Manually Coded Malay.[1]
