• In South Africa, manually coded language is used in education, as a bridge between South African Sign Language (SASL) and the eleven official oral languages...
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  • Manually coded languages are a family of gestural communication methods which include gestural spelling as well as constructed languages which directly...
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  • Manually Coded English (MCE) is an umbrella term referring to a number of invented manual codes intended to visually represent the exact grammar and morphology...
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  • African government added a National Language Unit for South African Sign Language in 2001. SASL is not the only manual language used in South Africa....
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  • constitute language. Signed modes of spoken languages, also known as manually coded languages, which are bridges between signed and spoken languages The list...
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    Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with...
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  • sign language from deaf education, and establishing the solely oralist classroom as standard. In line with this philosophy, manually coded languages have...
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  • used in China. It is not related to the Taiwanese Sign Language used in Taiwan. Manually coded Mandarin is referred to as Wénfǎ Shǒuyǔ (simplified Chinese:...
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    Press. pp. 56–186. Lass, Roger (2002), "South African English", in Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.), Language in South Africa, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-79105-2...
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    Bantu language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately...
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  • Cued speech (category Language articles without language codes)
    to signing, it is not a sign language; nor is it a manually coded sign system for a spoken language. Rather, it is a manual modality of communication for...
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    Cape Columbine light house is the last manually controlled lighthouse in South Africa. The lighthouse was built in 1936 on Castle Rock. The light cast a...
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    the only German-language daily in Africa. An estimated 12,000 people speak German or a German variety as a first language in South Africa, mostly originating...
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    Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The total number of Bantu languages is estimated at between...
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    800 members. The institute has adopted official names in South Africa's other official languages, namely (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Vertalersinstituut...
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    nationalities. The Portuguese expanded across South America, across Africa to the Pacific Ocean, taking their language with them. Its spread was helped by mixed...
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  • language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African American population living in coastal regions of South...
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  • TshiVenda, and KheLobedu languages of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Linguists place Kalanga (S.16 in Guthrie's classification) and Nambya (in the Hwange region...
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    BSL, though it has influence from both languages. It has influenced sign languages in Australia and South Africa, and has little relation to either spoken...
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    entirely in Africa, with the language introduced during the Spanish colonial period. Enshrined in the constitution as an official language (alongside...
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    historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were once commonplace in parts of Africa, as they were in much of the rest of the...
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    fastest-growing language in the United States. It is also a protected language in South Africa and is offered as an optional third language in schools in KwaZulu-Natal...
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    material region coded as region 1. But it also contained a short video loop of a map of the world showing the regions, which was coded as region 2, 3,...
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    D with stroke (category South Slavic languages)
    the bowl, in which case it is known as a barred d. In some African languages' orthographies, such as that of Moro, the barred d is preferred. In the uppercase...
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    Hopkins Gallaudet may have used an artificially constructed form of manually coded language in instruction rather than true LSF.: 497  Although the United States...
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    languages, Turkic languages, sub-Saharan African languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, languages of maritime Southeast Asia and languages of...
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  • coded in ISO 3166-1. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established alphabetic and numeric codes for each state and outlying areas in ANSI...
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  • in French Sign Language (LSF), and although this alphabet has now almost disappeared from Australia, some initialised signs from the ISL/AISL manual alphabet...
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  • privilege in recorded history. William Miller Macmillan suggests that the Great Trek was an attempt to preserve the racial privilege of White South Africans. Anti-slavery...
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  • Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies...
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