Irish Sign Language (ISL, Irish: Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland. It is...
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Australian Irish Sign Language or AISL is a minority sign language in Australia. As a Francosign language, it is related to French Sign Language as opposed...
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Irish Australians (Irish: Gael-Astrálaigh) are residents of Australia who are either fully or partially of Irish descent. Irish immigrants and their...
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widely-spoken Indigenous languages. Other distinctively Australian languages include the Australian sign language Auslan, Indigenous sign languages, and Norf'k-Pitcairn...
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Auslan (redirect from Australian sign language)
of Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL)...
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British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While...
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are significant sign languages developed for the hearing as well, such as the speech-taboo languages used by some Aboriginal Australian peoples. Scholars...
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languages (described 1086) "Southwest European" Sign Languages Proto-Spanish Spanish Sign Language (dictionary 1851) Venezuelan Sign Language Irish Australian...
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BANZSL (redirect from British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language)
British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language (BANZSL, /ˈbænzəl/), or the British Sign Language (BSL) family, is a language family or grouping encompassing...
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French Sign Language, Italian Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language (LSQ), American Sign Language, Irish Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language...
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American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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Sign Language has its roots in British Sign Language (BSL), and may be technically considered a dialect of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language...
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(1960–1974) Modern design since 1974 In Ireland, the yield sign reads yield in most areas, although in Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) areas the text is géill slí...
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attracting English- and Irish-speakers alike. There is also an Irish language instructor, appointed every year by the Ireland Canada University Foundation...
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Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic (/ˈɡeɪlɪk/ GAY-lik), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family...
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only the Irish language is used on signs. Only regulatory signs and certain road markings are prescribed in law under the Road Traffic (Signs) Regulations...
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status of the Irish language has remained high in the Republic of Ireland from foundation. This reflects the dominance of the language in Irish cultural and...
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Island Language (Norf'k) Act 2004 passed by the island's legislative assembly. In 2018, Eve Semple and colleagues received a grant from the Australian Research...
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and Australian Irish Sign Language with about 100 speakers. It is believed that there were between 200 and 300 Australian Aboriginal languages at the...
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South Australian English is the variety of English spoken in the Australian state of South Australia. As with the other regional varieties within Australian...
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2020. "Irish Sign Language given official legal recognition". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 January 2018. "President signs Irish Sign Language bill into...
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Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...
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In the United States, the term "Black Irish" was initially used in the 19th century to derogatorily describe Irish refugees of the Great Famine. It later...
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also be given. Road signs in Ireland are bilingual, using Irish and English. Wales similarly uses bilingual Welsh–English signs, while some parts of...
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region. Other non-American countries using road signs similar to the MUTCD include Australia, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand...
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Fingerspelling (redirect from British Sign Language alphabet)
as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-handed such as in British Sign Language. Fingerspelling...
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grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages. Unlike the sign languages that have evolved naturally...
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Manually coded English (redirect from Irish Signed English)
in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and one-handed systems are used in North America (see ASL alphabet), Ireland (see Irish Sign Language), Singapore...
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Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language...
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second language. The New Zealand English dialect is most similar to Australian English in pronunciation, with some key differences. The Māori language of...
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