Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia (KTBM), or Manually Coded Malay, is a signed form of the
Malay language recognized by the government in
Malaysia and the
Malaysian Ministry of Education. It is used as an aid to teachers teaching the Malay language to deaf students in formal education settings. It is not itself a language, but a
manually coded form of Malay. It was adapted from
American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canadians, Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual lang ...
(or perhaps
Manually 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 for the purpose of teaching the Malay language.
The official
Malaysian Sign Language, known as ''Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia'', is the official sign language recognised by the Malaysian government 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.
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Malay language
Malay
Malay may refer to:
Languages
* Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
** Indonesi ...