American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community. Literary genres... 56 KB (7,972 words) - 00:28, 26 March 2024 |
American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf African Americans... 24 KB (2,507 words) - 12:55, 14 December 2023 |
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... 160 KB (13,790 words) - 15:50, 17 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,831 words) - 22:04, 29 December 2023 |
Clayton Valli (category 20th-century American poets) to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Valli attended the Austine... 4 KB (443 words) - 03:52, 12 April 2024 |
references to sign language (simplified Chinese: 手语; traditional Chinese: 手語; pinyin: shǒuyǔ; lit. 'hand language') in Chinese literature date from the... 10 KB (1,029 words) - 20:30, 14 April 2024 |
language is unrelated to Nigerian Sign Language, which is based on American Sign Language. "Local" sign is considered inferior to Nigerian/American Sign... 2 KB (260 words) - 18:13, 19 December 2022 |
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... 28 KB (3,438 words) - 23:57, 2 April 2024 |
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... 24 KB (3,358 words) - 14:46, 14 July 2023 |
and issues explored in this literature are the role of African Americans within the larger American society, African American culture, racism, slavery,... 93 KB (11,935 words) - 20:18, 24 December 2023 |
Deaf culture (category Use American English from February 2019) 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... 75 KB (8,606 words) - 22:55, 16 April 2024 |
of Guatemala, formerly equated by most users and most literature equates with the sign language known by the acronymic abbreviations LENSEGUA, Lensegua... 11 KB (1,398 words) - 18:59, 19 December 2022 |
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... 3 KB (302 words) - 09:10, 3 August 2023 |
Ben Bahan (category American deaf people) 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... 6 KB (671 words) - 17:20, 1 August 2023 |
Nahuatl (redirect from Nahuatl literature) transcriptions, from the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Barnstone, Willis (2003). Literatures of Latin America: From Antiquity to Present. Princeton:... 119 KB (12,808 words) - 06:41, 11 April 2024 |
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... 1 KB (136 words) - 04:16, 26 January 2024 |
Manually coded English (redirect from American Signed English) different from American Sign Language, which is a natural language with a distinct morphology, lexicon, and syntax. Rather, North American varieties of... 26 KB (3,600 words) - 00:03, 9 April 2024 |
French literature (French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France;... 22 KB (2,176 words) - 00:17, 9 April 2024 |
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... 27 KB (2,563 words) - 04:26, 27 March 2024 |
Swiss-German Sign Language (German: Deutschschweizer Gebärdensprache, abbreviated DSGS) is the primary deaf sign language of the German-speaking part of... 5 KB (508 words) - 11:14, 27 December 2022 |
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... 60 KB (5,684 words) - 14:22, 5 April 2024 |