The threedeaf-community sign languages indigenous toVietnam are found inHo Chi Minh City,Hanoi, andHaiphong. The HCMC and Hanoi languages especially have been influenced by theFrench Sign Language (LSF) once taught in schools, and have absorbed a large amount of LSF vocabulary.

The Vietnamese languages are part of a sign language area that includes indigenous sign languages ofLaos andThailand, though it is not known if they are genealogically related to each other. The influence of LSF may have obscured the links: the highest cognacy is with Haiphong Sign, which has been the least influenced by LSF.

There are attempts to develop a nationalstandard language,Vietnamese Sign Language (Vietnamese:Ngôn ngữ ký hiệu Việt Nam).

• Haiphong Sign Language
• Old Chiangmai–Bangkok Sign Language family
• Vietnamese Braille

• Woodward, James (2000).Sign languages and sign language families in Thailand and Viet Nam, inEmmorey, Karen, and Harlan Lane, eds., The signs of language revisited : an anthology to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, p. 23-47
• Woodward, James; Thi Hoa, Nguyen; Tran Thuy Tien, Nguyen (2004).Providing higher educational opportunities in Deaf adults in Viet Nam through Vietnamese sign languages: 2000-2003. In: Deaf Worlds 20: 3 (2004) - pp. 232–263

• Students are dextrous with sign language(in Vietnamese)

• Languages of Vietnam
• Sign languages

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