• Henniker Sign Language was a village sign language of 19th-century Henniker, New Hampshire and surrounding villages in the US. It was one of three local...
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    recognition of sign languages Pointing Sign name ASL interpreting In particular, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Henniker Sign Language, and Sandy River...
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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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    Vineyard Sign Language is now extinct. Along with French Sign Language, it was one of several main contributors to American Sign Language. Henniker Sign Language...
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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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    (RSL) Extinct sign languages Angami Naga Sign Language Henniker Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) Old French Sign Language (VLSF) Old...
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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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  • Sign Language (Nigeria) Central Taurus Sign Language (Turkey) Chatino Sign Language (Mexico) Ghardaia Sign Language (Algeria → Israel) Henniker Sign Language...
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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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    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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    Henniker is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, the reported total population of the town was 6,185, although...
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  • the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances...
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    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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    language online to help others reconnect with Inuit culture". CNN. Duncan Pryde Inuit Sign Language Yupik languages Uralo Siberian Inupiaq language "Greenland's...
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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 from the early 18th century...
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  • this cultural context. For instance, many Alaska Native languages determine silence to be a sign of respect and a demonstration that one is listening. However...
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    German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other...
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    Indigenous languages Indigenous languages European language dialects Pidgin languages Indigenous languages Creole languages Indigenous languages Indigenous...
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  • Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family. Lushootseed is the general name for the dialect continuum...
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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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    the language of the First Nations Saanich people in the Pacific Northwest region of northwestern North America. Saanich is a Coast Salishan language in...
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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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    (Gagana faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa; IPA: [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...
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    Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...
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  • an Austronesian language originating in the Caroline Islands, but spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is an official language (as well as English)...
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    i-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern...
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  • Vineyard Sign Language and Henniker Sign Language, it was one of three local languages which formed the basis of American Sign Language. The deaf communities...
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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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    The Blackfoot language, also called Siksiká (its denomination in ISO 639-3, English: /ˈsɪksəkə/ SIK-sə-kə; Siksiká [sɪksiká], syllabics ᓱᖽᐧᖿ), often anglicised...
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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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