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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The Japanese Sign Language (JSL) family is a language family of three sign languages: Japanese Sign Language (JSL) family Japanese Sign Language (JSL)...
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Sign Language date from 1895. The origins of TSL developed from Japanese Sign Language during Japanese rule. TSL is considered part of the Japanese Sign...
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predate the Japanese colonial period (de jure beginning 1910), the sign language developed some features in common with Japanese Sign Language (JSL) grammar...
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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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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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language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into several dialects with Tokyo dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language...
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Japanese Equivalent Sign Language or Signed Japanese is a signed language that corresponds to Japanese. With this signed language, you can express Japanese...
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Japanese (日本語, Nihongo; [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million...
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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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Hokkien, Hakka, Japanese, and Mandarin. Due to the former Japanese occupation of the island, the Japanese language has influenced the languages of Taiwan,...
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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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of sign languages are spoken throughout Asia. These include the Japanese Sign Language family, Chinese Sign Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, as...
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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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The yen and yuan sign (¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts. This character resembles...
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Japanese Sign Language (JSL), also known as Nihon Shuwa, is the unofficial but most predominantly used sign language used by nearly 57,000 native signers...
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The Japanese Sign Language syllabary (指文字, yubimoji; literally "finger letters") is a system of manual kana used as part of Japanese Sign Language (JSL)...
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and sign language linguistics. Six languages are spoken and signed in the film: English, Japanese, Italian, American Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language...
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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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German Sign Language (urban) Old French Sign Language (urban) Lyons Sign Language (urban) Japanese Sign Language (school?) Chinese Sign Language (school)...
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German Sign Language (German: Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) is the sign language of the deaf community in Germany, Luxembourg and in the German-speaking...
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legal recognition of signed languages differs widely. In some jurisdictions (countries, states, provinces or regions), a signed language is recognised as...
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use today—not only in Europe, but also in China, Japan, and the United States. Unlike deaf sign languages, they are better understood as forms of symbolic...
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Road signs in Japan are standardized by the "Order on Road Sign, Road Line, and Road Surface Marking (道路標識、区画線及び道路標示に関する命令)" established in 1968 with origins...
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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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A Sign of Affection (Japanese: ゆびさきと恋々, Hepburn: Yubisaki to Renren; lit. 'Fingertips and Affection') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated...
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except July, August and December. ASLPI American Sign Language Proficiency Interview SLPI Sign Language Proficiency Interview Official ACTFL Oral Proficiency...
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Filipino Sign Language, abbreviated as FSL (Filipino: Wikang Senyas), or Philippine Sign Language, is a sign language originating in the Philippines. Like...
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OK gesture (redirect from OK sign)
Society: 67–80. Stainbrook, Kaitlin (2 March 2016). "Japanese Sign Language and Being Deaf in Japan". Tofugu. Retrieved 20 November 2018. Shin shuwa kyōshitsu :...
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government project was set up in 2010 to establish a national sign language with the aid of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf. Two manual alphabets are in use...
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