The 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...

The council's description suggests that sign language in Qatar may belong to the Arab Sign Language family. Intelligent Informatics: Proceedings of the...

Levantine Arabic Sign Language is the sign language used by people of the area known as Bilad al-Sham or the Levant, comprising Jordan, Palestine, Syria...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

the Arab sign language family (Hendriks 2008). Libyan Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Hendriks, Bernadet, 2008. Jordanian Sign Language: aspects...

Kuwaiti Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Kuwait. It appears to belong to the Arab sign language family (Hendriks 2008). Hendriks, Bernadet, 2008...

Yemeni Sign Language is the (or a) deaf sign language of Yemen. It belongs to the Arab sign-language family (Hendriks 2008). It is not clear how close...

18 Arab countries. There are 100,000 deaf people in Saudi Arabia. Wittmann (1991) posits that SSL is a language isolate (a 'prototype' sign language),...

Iraqi Sign Language (Arabic: لغة الإشارة العراقية, romanized: luḡa al-išāra al-ʿIrāqiyya) is the deaf sign language of Iraq. It appears to be close to...

Sign Language is not formally recognized by the government. Linguistically, Egyptian Sign Language is not related to other sign languages of the Arab...

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...

Israeli Sign Language (Hebrew: שפת הסימנים הישראלית), also known as Shassi or ISL, is the most commonly used sign language by the Deaf community of Israel...

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...

Sign Language has been developed by the Zayed Higher Organization for People of Determination and is the first deaf sign language for the United Arab...

Algerian Sign Language (Arabic: لغة الإشارة الجزائرية, romanized: Lughatu l-'Ishāratu l-Jazāʼirīyatu; Berber languages: ⵜⵓⵜⵍⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⴷⵓⴳⴰⵎⵜ ⵏ ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ, romanized: Tutlayt...

Southeast Asia Caucasian languages Distribution of the Uralic, Altaic, and Yukaghir languages The family relationships of sign languages are not well established...

over 70 distinct languages across 12 or so language families. Today, a majority of those indigenous languages are still spoken; however, most are endangered...

Kurdish Sign Language (ZHK, from Kurdish Zmani Hêmay Kurdi) is the deaf sign language of the Kurds of Kurdistan Region, Iraq. There are three dialects...

sign languages are used among the Deaf community. Many public and formal speeches and most political talk shows are in Lebanese, not MSA. In the Arab...

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...

language shift. The term applies not only to cultures, but also to individuals, as they acclimate to Arab culture and become "Arabized". Arabization took...

Sign language is used by at least some of the deaf population of Oman. It is not clear if there is a single language across the country, or if it is distinct...

Bedouin Sign Language Kafr Qasem Sign Language Arab El-Naim Sign Language Ein Mahel Sign Language Abu Kaf Bedouin Sign Language Al-Atrash Sign Language Israel...

cultural heritage of the Arabs. The countries of the Arab world, from Morocco to Iraq, share a common culture, traditions, language and history that give...

and linguistic shifts to an Arab identity, culture, and language leading to a unique cultural identity. Prior to Arabization, Sudan was mainly inhabited...

"Israel, Cyprus Sign Deal for Underwater Electricity Cable". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 7 January 2017. "Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel...

and Arabic is the official language, while English is the most spoken language and the language of business. The United Arab Emirates oil and natural gas...

additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign languages. The official language of Indonesia...

Kafr Qasem Sign Language (لغة الإشارة الكفر قاسم (Arabic) Lughat il-Ishārah il-Kafr Qasim) is a village sign language in Israel. The language is in the...

interests of the Arab countries and sets out the following definition of an Arab: An Arab is a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arab country,...