Malaysian Sign Language
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| Malaysian Sign Language Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia, BIM |
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| Signed in: | Malaysia | |
| Total signers: | unknown | |
| Language family: | Related to American Sign Language | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sgn-MY | |
| ISO 639-3: | xml
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| sign language — list of sign languages — legal recognition | ||
Malaysian Sign Language or Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM), is the sign language in every day use in many parts of Malaysia. BIM has many dialects, differing from state to state.
American Sign Language (ASL) has had a strong influence on BIM, but the disimilarity between the two sign languages is American and Malaysian lifestyles.
There are more other sign languages in use in Malaysia than MSL/BIM are Penang Sign Language (PSL) and Selangor Sign Language (SSL or KLSL). These two sign langauges were began in 1980 before MSL/BIM when Penang, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur became popular destinations among employment opportunities, entertaintments, disability benefits. Additionally, every parent of deaf children has own signs called Home sign to make a gestural communication.
Malaysia Sign Language was born when Malaysia Feredation of the Deaf was established in 1998 and has expanded deaf leaders and participants.
However, Ministry of Education Malaysia doesn't recognize thses sign languages to be ones of the official sign languages for education than Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia.
Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia or Manually Coded Malay (KTBM) was created by hearing educators and linguists in between 1980 and 1986.
Some editors wrote that these sign languages in Malaysia have been influenced by Chinese Sign Language. It is disinformative because the Chinese population of Malaysia is between 19 percent and 21 percent. Non-Chinese people assumes that home signs created by Chinese families for their deaf children are Chinese Sign Language. This is probably related to Ethnic Stereotype.
