Dutch Sign Language (Dutch: Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the predominant sign language used by deaf people...
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French Sign Language is related and partially ancestral to Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign Language (LSFB)...
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Nederlands met Gebaren (NmG), or Signed Dutch, is a manually coded form of Dutch, using the signs of Dutch Sign Language, that is used for pedagogical purposes...
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Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
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Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language...
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perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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predominant language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken and written by almost all people in the Netherlands. Dutch is also spoken and official in the Dutch Caribbean...
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Flemish Sign Language (Dutch: Vlaamse Gebarentaal, VGT) is a deaf sign language of Belgium. It is closely related to French Belgian Sign Language, but they...
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Dutch (endonym: Nederlands [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ) is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first...
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legal recognition of signed languages differs widely. In some jurisdictions (countries, states, provinces or regions), a signed language is recognised as...
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official languages. The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German. A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects...
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Italian Sign Language (Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s...
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Afrikaans (redirect from Hottentot Dutch language)
intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form. The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled...
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potential sign language families: Francosign languages, such as LSF, ASL, Dutch Sign Language, Flemish Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language. BANZSL...
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from Ireland. Dutch Sign Language was introduced to the school along with British Sign Language which developed into Gambian Sign Language, incorporating...
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Netherlands (redirect from Dutch (country))
Belgium. The official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English, and Papiamento...
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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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Refers to the Tjwao dialect See Zimbabwean sign languages In the United States of America, English is the language of the Declaration of Independence and...
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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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than the Hollandic dialect of Dutch. Alongside the numerous and varied oral languages, the United States also boasts several sign languages. Historically...
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the Pennsylvania Dutch are referred to as Dutch, which typically refers to the inhabitants of the Netherlands or the Dutch language, only distantly related...
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the Taalunie since 2004. The Dutch Language Union was established by a treaty between Belgium and the Netherlands, signed on 9 September 1980 in Brussels...
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Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi...
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Dutch was the language used by colonizers for centuries in the Indonesian Archipelago, both when it was still colonized or partially colonized by the Netherlands...
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Kajana Sign Language (Dutch: Kajana Gebarentaal) is a village sign language of Suriname. It is spoken in Kajana, a village of just three families. v t...
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Irma Sluis (category Sign languages)
The Hague) is a Dutch sign language interpreter. She is an interpreter in Dutch sign language (NGT) and international sign language (Gestuno) and has...
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The following are sign languages reported to be used by at least 10,000 people. Additional languages, such as Chinese Sign Language, are likely to have...
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is also commonly called the at symbol, commercial at, or address sign. Most languages have their own name for the symbol. Although not included on the...
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Suriname Dutch Sign Language – Nederlandse Gebarentaal Signed in: the Netherlands Dutton World Speedwords – rapmotz International auxiliary language Dyula...
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000 people, the other language was an indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
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