Malaysian Sign Language in Malaysia

Speakers

Type

Location

Malaysian Sign Language in Malaysia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Malaysian Sign Language in Malaysia

Size

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Video

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions

Asynchronicity

  • Pervasive uses of asynchronicity by all users in a wide range of domains
  • Frequent uses of asynchronicity by a majority of users in several contexts
  • Habitual uses of asynchronicity by a good number of users which may be limited to specific contexts
  • Occasional and unsystematic use of asynchronicity
  • Very limited use of asynchronicity by a few individuals only
  • Not used for purposes of asynchronicity

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Users within total population

Less than 1% use the language

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language

Age distribution of users

24,000
80
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
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Age distribution of users

4,000
13
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
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Age distribution of users

2,000
7
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
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Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

No education
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Early childhood education
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50
50
1,000
Primary education
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50
50
5,000
Lower secondary education
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50
50
24,000
Higher secondary education
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70
30
100
Tertiary education
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Occupational qualifications

50
50
10,000
Elementary occupations
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50
50
1,000
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
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50
50
800
Craft and related trades workers
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50
50
200
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
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50
50
8,000
Services and sales workers
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50
50
7,000
Clerical support workers
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Technicians and associate professionals
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Professionals
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Managers
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Language competence

Language not used
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50
50
3,000
Understand little, speak/sign none
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50
50
9,000
Understand some, speak/sign little
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50
50
15,000
Understand well, speak/sign some
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50
50
2,000
Understand all, speak/sign well
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50
50
1,000
Understand all, speak/sign fluently
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Digital use

Less than 1% digital users of the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
Malaysia, Singapore

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

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