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...
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"Association of the Deaf in Israel". Retrieved 14 May 2015. Israeli Sign Language and Hebrew are the languages of the Israeli Deaf community Meir, Irit;...
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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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Sign Language family is a language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language....
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medicine, law enforcement, etc. In Israel, Naama Weiss, a board member of Malach, the Organization of the Israeli Sign Language Interpreters, advertised a video...
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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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Estonian Sign Language (1866) Slovak Sign Language Slovenian Sign Language (1840) Croatian Sign Language (1885) possibly Israeli Sign Language (1934) (but...
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revived as the spoken language of modern Israel, called variously Israeli Hebrew, Modern Israeli Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, New Hebrew, Israeli Standard Hebrew...
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The Israeli Deaf community is linguistically diverse, with Israeli Sign Language (ISL) being the most widely used, alongside minority sign languages such...
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Modern Hebrew (redirect from Israeli Hebrew language)
known as Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. It is the only extant Canaanite language, as well...
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sign languages of the western regions; some may be unrelated. Polish Sign Language is descended from German Sign Language. Israeli Sign Language may be...
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Russian Sign Language (RSL) is the sign language used by the Deaf community in Russia, with what is possibly additional presence in Belarus and Tajikistan...
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Jews tended to marry deaf Israelis from other backgrounds, they adopted Israeli Sign Language (ISL) as their primary language and AJSL is now used only...
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of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel". In Zeshan, Ulrike; de Vos, Connie (eds.). Sign Languages in Village Communities :...
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Language (urban) Indo-Pakistani Sign Language Sri Lankan sign languages (school sign, fourteen languages) Israeli Sign Language Bamako Sign Language (urban)...
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classical Arabic (VSO) and the predominant sign languages in the region, Israeli Sign Language and Jordanian Sign Language. ABSL has a tendency to limit predicates...
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Irish Sign Language (ISL, Irish: Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland. It is...
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derived from the Hebrew and Greek alphabets Malach, organization of Israeli Sign Language interpreters Bob Malach (born 1954), American jazz saxophonist Chaim...
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in the signing of the Abraham Accords. The Israeli security situation shifted from the traditional Arab–Israeli conflict towards the Iran–Israel proxy...
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Sephardi Hebrew (redirect from Sephardic Hebrew language)
"tsohorayim". This feature is also found in Mizrahi Hebrew, but is not found in Israeli Hebrew. It is represented in the transliteration of proper names in the...
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Judaeo-Spanish (redirect from Judaeo-Spanish language)
residing in Israel. Although it has no official status in any country, it has been acknowledged as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, and...
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Irit Meir (category Linguists of sign languages)
was an Israeli linguist, who specialized in the linguistics of sign languages. She was an associate professor in the Department of Hebrew Language and the...
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In Israel, Arabic is spoken natively by over 20 percent of the Israeli population, predominantly by Arab citizens of Israel, but also by Jews who arrived...
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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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Geʽez (redirect from Geez language)
South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea. Today, Geʽez is used as the main liturgical language of the Ethiopian...
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The shekel sign ⟨₪⟩ is a currency sign used for the shekel, the currency of Israel. The Israeli new shekel (Hebrew: שקל חדש, romanized: šéqel ħadáš, IPA:...
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Traffic, conveys its meaning through the depiction of a raised hand. Israeli road sign regulations provide for the following fonts to be used: Tamrurim for...
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2013, A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language Norwegian Sign Language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) "Indo-Pakistani Sign Language", Encyclopedia...
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the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal (צה״ל), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces...
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000 people, the other language was an indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
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