• 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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    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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  • sections : Deaf sign languages, which are the preferred languages of Deaf communities around the world; these include village sign languages, shared with...
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  • Adamorobe Sign Language or AdaSL is a village sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana. It is used by about 30 deaf and 1370 hearing...
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    a village may use the sign language. It is unrelated to the national sign languages of Mexico (Mexican Sign Language) and Guatemala (Guatemalan Sign Language)...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • A deaf-community or urban sign language is a sign language that emerges when deaf people who do not have a common language come together and form a community...
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  • Algerian Jewish Sign Language (AJSL), also known as Ghardaia Sign Language, is a moribund village sign language originally of Ghardaïa, Algeria that is...
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  • Nepalese Sign Language or Nepali Sign Language (Nepali: नेपाली साङ्केतिक भाषा, romanized: Nēpālī Sāṅkētika Bhāṣā) is the main sign language of Nepal. It...
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  • Koniya Sign (Japanese: 古仁屋手話, romanized: Koniya Shuwa), or Amami Ōshima Sign (AOSL; 奄美大島手話, Amamiōshima Shuwa) is a village sign language, or group of...
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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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  • Alipur Sign Language is a village sign language of India. It is spoken in the town of Alipur, Karnataka, a Shia Muslim enclave with a high degree of congenital...
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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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    Quiahije Chatino Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de señas chatina de San Juan Quiahije, also known as Cha'ya') is an emerging village sign language of the indigenous...
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    Albarradas Sign Language, also known as Didxa ná’, is an indigenous village sign language of Mexico. It arose approximately 150 years ago in the Zapotec...
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  • Keresan Sign Language, also known as Keresan Pueblo Indian Sign Language (KPISL) or Keresign, is a village sign language spoken by many of the inhabitants...
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  • pejorative; Portuguese: Língua de sinais caapor brasileira) is a village sign language used by the small community of Kaʼapor people in the Brazilian state...
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  • Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS; simplified Chinese: 中国手语; traditional Chinese: 中國手語; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shǒuyǔ) is the main sign language used...
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  • Naga Hills Sign Language was a village sign language of Nagaland. Early in the 20th century, a high incidence of deafness was observed among communities...
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  • Old Kentish Sign Language (OKSL, also Old Kent Sign Language) was a village sign language of 17th-century Kent in the United Kingdom, that has been incorporated...
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  • Tebul Sign Language (French: Langue des signes de Tebul) is a village sign language of the village of Uluban in the Dogon region of Mali, among speakers...
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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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  • Miyakubo Sign Language (Japanese: 宮窪手話, romanized: Miyakubo Shuwa) also known as Ehime-Oshima Sign Language, is a village sign language of Ōshima Island...
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  • Cena is a village sign language used by 34 known deaf signers and many more hearing inhabitants of Várzea Queimada, a small, agricultural community in...
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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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  • Bribri Sign Language was a village sign language of an indigenous Bribri community in southern Costa Rica. It is unrelated to Costa Rican Sign Language. Bribri...
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  • Enga Sign Language is an apparent village sign language among the Tato Enga people in Enga province, Papua New Guinea. It was reported in 1980 in three...
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  • Jhankot Sign Language (Nepali: झान्कोट साङ्केतिक भाषा, romanized: Jhānkōṭa Sāṅkētika Bhāṣā) is a village sign language of the village of Jhankot in western...
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