• The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...
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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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    of five components of a sign, along with handshape (DEZ), location (TAB), movement (SIG), and nonmanual features. American Sign Language grammar v t e...
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  • synthesized signs with French grammar. With consistent use among the community these two sources evolved into the French Sign Language. American Sign Language is...
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  • in Chinese scripts. American Sign Language grammar Southern Athabaskan grammar: Classificatory verbs Noun class Analytic language Determiner (linguistics)...
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    grammar and lexicon. Sign languages are not universal and are usually not mutually intelligible, although there are similarities among different sign...
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  • influence on the vocabulary and grammar of sign languages. Loan translations are common, such as the American Sign Language signs BOY and FRIEND, forming a...
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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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  • 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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  • interpolate the grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages. Unlike the sign languages that have...
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    originating in the Philippines. Like other sign languages, FSL is a unique language with its own grammar, syntax and morphology; it is not based on and...
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  • Old French Sign Language (French: Vieille langue des signes française, often abbreviated as VLSF) was the language of the deaf community in 18th-century...
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  • communication that strives to be an exact representation of English language vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking...
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    International Sign (IS) is a pidgin sign language which is used in a variety of different contexts, particularly as an international auxiliary language at meetings...
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  • Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and...
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    British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While...
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  • Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to those of oral languages. Phonemes serve the...
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  • been compiled; grammar has not been addressed, so the result cannot be considered a language. Unlike spoken Arabic, Arabic sign languages (ArSLs) are not...
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  • Japanese Sign Language (日本手話, nihon-shuwa), also known by the acronym JSL, is the dominant sign language in Japan and is a complete natural language, distinct...
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  • Sign Language (IPSL) is the predominant sign language in the subcontinent of South Asia, used by at least 15 million deaf signers. As with many sign languages...
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    require the parent to learn the grammar of a sign language. Baby signs are usually gestures or signs taken from the sign language community and modified to...
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  • new students. Namibian Sign has been influenced by both American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language. Namibian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed...
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  • A village sign language, or village sign, also known as a shared sign language, is a local indigenous sign language used by both deaf and hearing in an...
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    speech, sign language, physical tokens and computerized lexigrams. These studies were controversial, with debate focused on the definition of language, the...
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    Maritime Sign Language (MSL; French: Langue des signes maritime) is a sign language used in Canada's Atlantic provinces. Maritime Sign Language is descended...
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  • Sign-language media are media based on a media system for sign languages. Interfaces in sign-language media are built on the complex grammar structure...
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    German Sign Language (German: Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) is the sign language of the deaf community in Germany, Luxembourg and in the German-speaking...
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    being replaced by American Sign Language, there are efforts to support the native sign language underway. The traditional language of the Inuit is a system...
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  • Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its vocabulary...
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    Windows, ISO-8859, and Macintosh families of encodings. Handshape American Sign Language grammar List of Egyptian hieroglyphs#H "H" Oxford English Dictionary...
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