Korean Sign Language or KSL (Korean: 手話

Hanja

Hanja is the Korean name for the Chinese characters hanzi. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation...

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Hangul

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 Suhwa

Revised Romanization of Korean

The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea proclaimed by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, replacing the older McCune–Reischauer system...

) is the deaf sign language of Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

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The beginnings of KSL date from 1889.

The first primary school for deaf children, opened in 1908, used KSL.

Although the origins of KSL predate the colonial period, the sign language developed some features in common with Japanese Sign Language (JSL) grammar. KSL is considered part of the Japanese Sign Language family

Japanese Sign Language family

The Japanese Sign Language family is a language family of three sign languages, Japanese Sign Language , Korean Sign Language , and Taiwanese Sign Language .There is little difficulty in communication between the three languages....

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Functional markers

KSL, like other sign languages, incorporates non-manual markers with lexical, syntactic, discourse, and affective functions. These include brow raising and furrowing, frowning, head shaking and nodding, and leaning and shifting the torso.