Spanish Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de Signos Española, LSE) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Spain and the people who live with them...
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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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Mexican Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas mexicana, LSM; also previously known by several other names), is a natural language that serves as the...
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sign languages (described 1086) "Southwest European" Sign Languages Proto-Spanish Spanish Sign Language (dictionary 1851) Venezuelan Sign Language Irish...
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Mayan Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas maya or yucateca) is a sign language used in Mexico and Guatemala by Mayan communities with unusually high...
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Signed Spanish and Signed Exact Spanish are any of several manually coded forms of Spanish that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to...
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Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Spanish: Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a form of sign language developed by deaf children in several schools in Nicaragua...
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Catalan Sign Language (Catalan: Llengua de signes catalana, LSC; IPA: [ˈʎeŋɡwə ðə ˈsiŋnəs kətəˈlanə]) is a sign language used by around 18,000 people in...
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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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Uruguayan Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas uruguaya, LSU) is the deaf sign language of Uruguay, used since 1910. It is not intelligible with neighboring...
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Maltese Sign Language (Maltese: Lingwa tas-Sinjali Maltija, LSM) is a young sign language of Malta. Maltese Sign Language has existed in some form since...
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The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...
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principal language, such as French Sign Language (FSL) to spoken French and Spanish Sign Language (SSL) to spoken Spanish. Multilingual sign language interpreters...
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American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). Local varieties...
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The majority of languages of Spain belong to the Romance language family, of which Spanish is the only one with official status in the whole country. Others...
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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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Icelandic Sign Language (Icelandic: Íslenskt táknmál) is the sign language of the deaf community in Iceland. It is based on Danish Sign Language; until 1910...
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others. In Spain and some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, Spanish is called not only español but also castellano (Castilian), the language from the...
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Honduran Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas hondureña, LESHO) is the dominant sign language used in Honduras. American Sign Language is also used;...
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Colombian Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de Señas Colombiana, LSC, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈleŋɡwa ðe ˈseɲas kolomˈbjana]) is the deaf sign language of Colombia...
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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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Spain. It is closely related to Catalan Sign Language (LSC); they are variously described as similar languages or as dialects of a single language. Valencia...
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languages, the numero sign is understood as an abbreviation of the word for "number", e.g. Italian numero, French numéro, and Portuguese and Spanish número...
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except July, August and December. ASLPI American Sign Language Proficiency Interview SLPI Sign Language Proficiency Interview Official ACTFL Oral Proficiency...
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frame Road signs in Andorra make use of the same designs used in Spain for its road signs, though the Catalan language is used instead of Spanish. However...
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Catalan Sign Language, Spanish Sign Language, Swiss German Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language List of sign languages Village sign language Meir, Irit;...
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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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Paraguayan Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas paraguaya, LSPY), is the deaf sign language of Paraguay. It is not intelligible with neighboring languages, nor...
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have only Spanish-language signs and Spanish-speaking people. Younger generations of non-Hispanics in the United States choose to study Spanish as a foreign...
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Venezuelan Sign Language (VSL; Spanish: Lengua de señas venezolana, LSV) is the national deaf sign language of Venezuela. The term, "Venezuelan Sign Language,"...
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