Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia (KTBM), or Manually Coded Malay, is the only form of sign language recognised by the government in Malaysia as the language of communication for the Deaf.

It is also referred to as Bahasa Malaysia Kod Tangan, which is the form found in the Ethnologue.

It is adapted from American Sign Language

American Sign Language

American Sign Language, or ASL, for a time also called Ameslan, is the dominant sign language of Deaf Americans, including deaf communities in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico...

, with the addition of some local signs, and grammatical signs representing affixation of nouns and verbs as used in Malay

Malay language

Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...

. It is used in Deaf schools for the purpose of teaching the Malay language.

See also

• Malaysian Sign Language
  Malaysian Sign Language
  Malaysian Sign Language is the sign language in everyday use in many parts of Malaysia. BIM has many dialects, differing from state to state....
  
   (MSL or BIM)
• Selangor Sign Language
  Selangor Sign Language
  Selangor Sign Language , also known as Kuala Lumpur Sign Language , is a sign language used in Malaysia. It was originally based on American Sign Language but has diverged significantly enough to now be considered a language in its own right...
  
   (SSL or KLSL)
• Penang Sign Language
  Penang Sign Language
  Penang Sign Language was developed in Malaysia by deaf children, outside the classroom, when oralism was predominant. It is now mainly used by older people, although many younger people can understand it.-History:...
  
   (PSL)
• Manually Coded English
  Manually Coded English
  Manually Coded English is a general term used to describe a variety of visual communication methods expressed through the hands which attempt to represent the English language...