Taiwanese Sign Language

Taiwanese Sign Language is the sign language most commonly used in Taiwan. It is the of some 50,000 people in the Republic of China.

TSL was heavily influenced by Japanese Sign Language during and thus has some with both Japanese Sign Language and Korean Sign Language. After , Taiwan absorbed an influx of sign language users from mainland China who influenced TSL through and loanwords.

There are two main dialects of TSL centered around two of the three major sign language schools in Taiwan: one in Taipei, the other in Tainan City .

Serious linguistic research on TSL began in the 1970s and is continuing at present. The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics was held on March 1-, 2003, at in Minhsiung, , Taiwan.