American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community. Literary genres...

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

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

of American Sign Language at home, so such data must come from other sources. While modern estimates indicate that American Sign Language was signed by...

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard from the early 18th century...

of English-language literature, but it also includes literature produced in the United States in languages other than English. The American Revolutionary...

to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Valli attended the Austine...

references to sign language (simplified Chinese: 手语; traditional Chinese: 手語; pinyin: shǒuyǔ; lit. 'hand language') in Chinese literature date from the...

Baby sign language is the use of manual signing allowing infants and toddlers to communicate emotions, desires, and objects prior to spoken language development...

language is unrelated to Nigerian Sign Language, which is based on American Sign Language. "Local" sign is considered inferior to Nigerian/American Sign...

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...

Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its phonology...

make legal any sign language, enabling the use of American Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) and "First Nation Sign Language" (which could refer...

and issues explored in this literature are the role of African Americans within the larger American society, African American culture, racism, slavery,...

hearing cultures in his appendices C/D of the 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language. Members of the Deaf community tend to view deafness as a difference...

"peso" and "dollar". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in the Portuguese language. The sign is also used in several compound currency symbols...

of Guatemala, formerly equated by most users and most literature equates with the sign language known by the acronymic abbreviations LENSEGUA, Lensegua...

There are one or two known sign languages in Myanmar. There are three schools for the deaf in the country: the Mary Chapman School for the Deaf in Yangon...

member of the deaf community. He is an influential figure in American Sign Language literature as a storyteller and writer of deaf culture. He is known for...

transcriptions, from the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Barnstone, Willis (2003). Literatures of Latin America: From Antiquity to Present. Princeton:...

Afghan Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, possibly with some presence in Kabul. It has been encouraged in the...

a formative influence on the language, the literature, the art, the music of all the major European and North American cultures. It continues to influence...

others. Taiwan has a national sign language, the Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL), which was developed from Japanese Sign Language during Japanese colonial rule...

related to Hebrew language. Works related to Hebrew language and literature at Wikisource Official website of the Academy of the Hebrew Language Ma'agarim –...

different from American Sign Language, which is a natural language with a distinct morphology, lexicon, and syntax. Rather, North American varieties of...

French literature (French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France;...

The equals sign (British English) or equal sign (American English), also known as the equality sign, is the mathematical symbol =, which is used to indicate...

Swiss-German Sign Language (German: Deutschschweizer Gebärdensprache, abbreviated DSGS) is the primary deaf sign language of the German-speaking part of...

The at sign, @, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), now seen more widely in email...