• 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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    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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  • Sign Language (Nigeria) Central Taurus Sign Language (Turkey) Chatino Sign Language (Mexico) Ghardaia Sign Language (Algeria → Israel) Henniker Sign Language...
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    of sign languages Pointing Sign name ASL interpreting Billingual-Bicultural Education In particular, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Henniker Sign Language...
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  • the 23 sign languages documented by Kamei have originated with or been influenced by them. Henniker Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language Old French...
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    Angami Naga Sign Language Henniker Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) Old French Sign Language (VLSF) Old Kentish Sign Language (OKSL) Pitta...
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    of them being languages of former Native American tribes. There are 215 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 5 Sign and 13 Pidgin languages listed. In total...
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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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    Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf Black Americans...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    "Spanish" and "English") is any language variety (such as a contact dialect, hybrid language, pidgin, or creole language) that results from conversationally...
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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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    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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  • English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and, since 2025, the official language of the...
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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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    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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    Blackfoot language, also called Niitsi'powahsin (ᖹᐨᓱᑲᖷᑊᓱᐡ) or Siksiká (/ˈsɪksəkə/ SIK-sə-kə; Blackfoot: [sɪksiká], ᓱᖽᐧᖿ), is an Algonquian language spoken...
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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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    Linguist. Tipsy Linguist. Labov, William (2007) "Transmission and Diffusion", Language June 2007 p. 64 Malady, Matthew J.X. (2014-04-29). "Where Yinz At; Why...
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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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    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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  • 2015. "Verdi Monument - Historical Sign". Nycgovparks.org. Retrieved March 11, 2010. "Publications in Foreign Languages: Italian", Ayer & Son's American...
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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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  • 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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    language assimilation theories — Vietnamese immigrants adopting English while maintaining fluency in their native language. However, there are signs that...
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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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