Can Chinese(tone language) deaf people talk?

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Deaf people can’t hear, but trough learning they are able to speak(talk), in an understandable way.

Do the way deaf people speak have a name(no, not language sign, when they talk)?

Is this even possible in Mandarin/Cantonese? Because mimicking the tones witouth a proper understanding of sound seems really hard.

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Mandarin and other Chinese languages are indeed tonal, but they are also heavily contextual. Even if the tones are somewhat off in conversation, conversation participants can still follow due to context.

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