Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and...

Hawaiian language word Hawaiʻi is very similar to Proto-Polynesian Sawaiki, with the reconstructed meaning "homeland." Cognates of Hawaiʻi are found...

History and Documentation of Hawaiʻi Sign Language: First Report, University of Hawaiʻi: 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation...

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...

kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiʻi was settled at least 800 years ago...

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...

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...

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

Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...

a lesser extent. Ecuadorian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Clark Brenda dissertationUniversity of Hawaiʻi Archived 2021-10-08 at the Wayback...

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...

Inuit Sign Language (IUR; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ, romanized: Inuit Uukturausingit) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of the...

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...

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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January 22, 2025. "University of Hawai'i at Mānoa". WSCUC. "University of Hawaiʻi Graphics Standards". University of Hawaiʻi. May 15, 2007. Retrieved June...

are from two different language families, Inuit also speak both Inuit Sign Language (IUR) in Canada and Greenlandic Sign Language in Greenland. It is unknown...

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, made Navajo language, the official language of Navajo Nation by signing legislation. He said “One of my priorities coming...

Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf Black Americans...

Orocovis Sign Language (LSOR; Spanish: Lengua de Señas de Orocovis) is a village sign language native to Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Distinct from both the...

Materials for a Reconstruction. PhD dissertation at the University of Hawaiʻi. p. 16. Elmendorf, William W. (1990). Suttles, Wayne (ed.). "Chemakum"...

this cultural context. For instance, many Alaska Native languages determine silence to be a sign of respect and a demonstration that one is listening. However...

Linguist. Tipsy Linguist. Labov, William (2007) "Transmission and Diffusion", Language June 2007 p. 64 Malady, Matthew J.X. (2014-04-29). "Where Yinz At; Why...

Apalachee was a Muskogean language of Florida. It was closely related to Koasati and Alabama. Apalachee was found to belong to the same branch of the Muskogean...

faʻa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa, pronounced [ŋaˈŋana ˈsaːmʊa]) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands. Administratively, the islands...

Islands] or Finoʼ Chamoru [Guam] /ˈfinoʔ t͡sɑˈmoɾu/) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...

[dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...

they also used English as a bridge language to communicate with each other in the absence of another common language. There were also some African Americans...

English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and, since 2025, the official language of the...

French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States. Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at...