Ottoman Sign Language, also known as Seraglio Sign Language or Harem Sign Language, was a deaf sign language of the Ottoman court in Istanbul. Nothing...

census data. TİD is dissimilar from European sign languages. There was a court sign language of the Ottoman Empire, which reached its height in the 16th...

The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...

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...

Kristina (Winter 2017). "New Evidence for Early Ottoman Arabic and Turkish Sign Systems". Sign Language Studies. 17 (2): 172–192. doi:10.1353/sls.2017...

The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental...

The following are sign languages reported to be used by at least 10,000 people. Additional languages, such as Chinese Sign Language, are likely to have...

Arab sign-language family is a family of sign languages spread across the Arab Middle East. Its extent is not yet known, because only some of the sign languages...

Persian literature. Language was not an obvious sign of group connection and identity in the 16th century among the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, Safavid...

Eritrean Sign Language (EriSL), also known as Quwanquwa Mïlïkït Eritra, is a sign language widely used in Eritrea by an estimated 15,000 deaf Eritrean...

that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms...

Iraqi Sign Language, but it is unknown if they are due to influence from ISL in the 1990s or later, or if they reflect a common inheritance from Ottoman/Arab...

The pound or lira (sign: LT; Ottoman Turkish: ليرا, romanized: līrā; French: livre turque; Greek: οθωμανική λίρα, romanized: othomanikí líra; Armenian:...

both the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire, the words lira and pound are used interchangeably. For the Turkish lira, the Turkish lira sign (U+20BA...

romanised tan. Persian and Ottoman use the order vāv, he, ye, though in Arabic, they are he, vāv, ye.[page needed] One further sign, which is not considered...

Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish. Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion spreading through the Ottoman Empire...

The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) was a period of history of the Ottoman Empire beginning with the Young Turk Revolution and ultimately...

English. Bulgarian Sign Language has an estimated 37,000 signers. At the 2011 Census, the optional question about native language was answered by 6,640...

The Ottoman Caliphate (Ottoman Turkish: خلافت مقامى, romanized: hilâfet makamı, lit. 'office of the caliphate') was the claim of the heads of the Turkish...

The Ottoman Navy (Turkish: Osmanlı Donanması) or the Imperial Navy (Ottoman Turkish: Donanma-yı Humâyûn), also known as the Ottoman Fleet, was the naval...

began in 1683 and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699. The war was a resounding defeat for the Ottoman Empire, which for the first time...

The Constitution of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: قانون أساسي, romanized: Kānûn-ı Esâsî, lit. 'Basic law'; French: Constitution ottomane) was in...

vassals. The war ended in Ottoman victory in 1547 after signing the peace of Edirne. The Ottoman Empire, under the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent...

limits of Ottoman jurisdiction in the area of the Persian Gulf with respect to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the Shatt al-Arab. It was signed on 29 July...

Abdulaziz (Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز, romanized: ʿAbdü'l-ʿAzîz; Turkish: Abdülaziz; 8 February 1830 – 4 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire...

A series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and various European states took place from the Late Middle Ages up through the early 20th century...

Israel. The language may still be used by some elderly Romaniotes in Ioannina. Greek Sign Language (Ελληνική Νοηματική Γλώσσα) is the sign language of the...

Abd-ul-Hamid. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. p. 72. "DEAF PEOPLE, SIGN LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION, IN OTTOMAN & MODERN TURKEY: Observations and Excerpts from 1300 to...

The Ottoman–Habsburg wars were fought from the 16th to the 18th centuries between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy, which was at times supported...

Hebrew was well on its way to becoming the main language of the Jewish population of both Ottoman and British Palestine. At the time, members of the...