Inuit Sign Language (IUR; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ, romanized: Inuit Uukturausingit) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of...
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The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent...
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their language family. Arctic cultural area (Inuit languages, including Inuit Sign Language) Subarctic culture area (Na-Dene and Algonquian languages) Eastern...
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Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...
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syllabics. Inuit Nunangat (/ˈɪnjuɪt ˈnunæŋæt/;[citation needed] Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ [inuit nunaŋat] 'the place where Inuit live'), formerly Inuit Nunaat...
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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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Autonomous Okrug. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskaleut. Canadian Inuit live throughout...
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Inuktitut (redirect from Eastern Canadian Inuit language)
also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the North American tree...
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Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL) Hawai'i Sign Language (HPSL) Inuit Sign Language (IUR) Jamaican Country Sign Language (KS) Maritime Sign Language (MSL) Old...
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Language (1987?) Black American Sign Language and "Eskimo Sign Language"? (dubious: the indigenous Inuit Sign Language is an isolate) A mixture of LSF...
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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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(/ɪˈnuːpiæt/ ih-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and...
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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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giving Inuit IUR legal status. IUR made its debut in the Nunavut legislature in 2008. Chinese Sign Language has no formal legal protection. Chilean Sign Language...
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Oneida Sign Language (OSL) is a revived language with roots in Hand Talk mixed with American Sign Language and the oral Oneida language. Alongside Elder...
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Quebec Sign Language (French: Langue des signes québécoise or du Québec, LSQ) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities used in francophone...
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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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creole languages (such as Louisiana Creole), and pidgin languages. American Sign Language (ASL) and Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, were...
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Inuvialuktun (redirect from Western Canadian Inuit language)
Canadian Inuit / Inuktitut / Inuktut / Inuktun) comprises several Inuit language varieties spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by Canadian Inuit who...
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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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Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
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Orocovis Sign Language (LSOR; Spanish: Lengua de Señas de Orocovis) is a village sign language native to Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Distinct from both the...
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Lingua franca (redirect from Diplomatic language)
Although unrelated, perhaps Inuit Sign Language played and continues to play a similar role across Inuit Nunangat and the various Inuit dialects. The original...
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Henniker Sign Language was a village sign language of 19th-century Henniker, New Hampshire and surrounding villages in the US. It was one of the three...
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Nations language in Canada (after Cree), and the fourth most widely spoken in the United States or Canada behind Navajo, the Inuit languages and Cree...
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The Miꞌkmaq language (/ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah; Mi'kmaq: [miːɡmax]), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada...
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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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called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf African Americans...
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Eskimo (redirect from Eskimo and Inuit peoples)
closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern...
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