Provided is a sign language recognition system, and the sign language recognition system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an electromyogram signal of a user from a sensor measurement device worn around an arm of the user, an extraction unit configured to extract a muscle active section from the electromyogram signal to detect a sign language gesture of the user, a producing unit configured to produce a first feature vector by performing signal processing to the muscle active section, a search unit configured to search a signal corresponding to the first feature vector in a database, and an output unit configured to output a text corresponding to the searched signal.