• Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and...
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    Hawaii (redirect from Hawaiʻi)
    Hawaiian language word Hawaiʻi is very similar to Proto-Polynesian Sawaiki, with the reconstructed meaning "homeland." Cognates of Hawaiʻi are found...
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    History and Documentation of Hawaiʻi Sign Language: First Report, University of Hawaiʻi: 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation...
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    kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiʻi was settled at least 800 years ago...
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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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    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 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 (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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    Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
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    Oneida Sign Language (OSL) is a revived language with roots in Hand Talk mixed with American Sign Language and the oral Oneida language. Alongside Elder...
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  • a lesser extent. Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Clark Brenda dissertationUniversity of Hawaiʻi Archived 2021-10-08 at the Wayback...
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    Inuit Sign Language (IUR; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ, romanized: Inuit Uukturausingit) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of the...
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  • Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard, United States, from the...
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  • Henniker Sign Language was a village sign language of 19th-century Henniker, New Hampshire and surrounding villages in the US. It was one of the three...
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  • helicopter Anti-submarine (Light) squadrons Hausa Sign Language, Kano, Nigeria Hawaiʻi Sign Language, Hawaii, United States Hamburg School of Logistics...
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  • January 22, 2025. "University of Hawai'i at Mānoa". WSCUC. "University of Hawaiʻi Graphics Standards". University of Hawaiʻi. May 15, 2007. Retrieved June...
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    are from two different language families, Inuit also speak both Inuit Sign Language (IUR) in Canada and Greenlandic Sign Language in Greenland. It is unknown...
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    Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, made Navajo language, the official language of Navajo Nation by signing legislation. He said “One of my priorities coming...
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    Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf African Americans...
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  • Apalachee was a Muskogean language of Florida. It was closely related to Koasati and Alabama. Apalachee was found to belong to the same branch of the Muskogean...
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    Orocovis Sign Language (LSOR; Spanish: Lengua de Señas de Orocovis) is a village sign language native to Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Distinct from both the...
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  • called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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    [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...
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  • Valley Sign Language was a village sign language of the 19th-century Sandy River Valley in Maine. Together with the more famous Martha's Vineyard Sign Language...
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  • they also used English as a bridge language to communicate with each other in the absence of another common language. There were also some African Americans...
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    Islands] or Finoʼ Chamoru [Guam] /ˈfinoʔ t͡sɑˈmoɾu/) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...
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    faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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  • French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States. Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at...
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  • HPS (category Articles containing Croatian-language text)
    Hazelwood Power Station, Lantrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia Hawai'i Sign Language (ISO 639 language code hps) Heartland Payment Systems, an American payment...
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  • California English (category Language articles with IETF language tag)
    Angeles Chicano/a English: Language & Identity". Voices. 2 (1): 4. Rawles, Myrtle R. (1966); "'Boontling': Esoteric Language of Boonville, California."...
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