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

Many Australian Aboriginal cultures have or traditionally had a manually coded language, a signed counterpart of their oral language. This appears to...

(/ˈɒzlæn/) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. The term Auslan is a portmanteau of "Australian Sign Language", coined by...

widely-spoken Indigenous languages. Other distinctively Australian languages include the Australian sign language Auslan, Indigenous sign languages, and Norf'k-Pitcairn...

Australian Irish Sign Language or AISL is a minority sign language in Australia. As a Francosign language, it is related to French Sign Language as opposed...

Speech-taboo languages Caucasian Sign Language Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles...

British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While...

Sign Language has its roots in British Sign Language (BSL), and may be technically considered a dialect of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language...

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...

Irish Sign Language (ISL, Irish: Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland. It is...

Samoan Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Samoa. Much Samoan Sign Language is based on Australian Sign Language, though there are local signs for...

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

Influences on the language(s) include ASL in all schools, as well as Korean Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, Thai Sign Language, and possibly a...

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...

The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...

desert region of Australia. It is one of the most elaborate, and certainly the most studied, of all Australian Aboriginal sign languages. While many neighbouring...

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...

Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language...

Guinean Sign Language (PNGSL) is a sign language originating from Papua New Guinea. The standardised form of PNGSL was made an official language of Papua...

Arrernte Sign Language, or Aranda Sign Language, also known as Iltyeme-iltyeme (handsigns), is a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used...

British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language (BANZSL) is the language of which British Sign Language (BSL), Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL)...

Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia. As with other Australian Aboriginal...

A deaf-community or urban sign language is a sign language that emerges when deaf people who do not have a common language come together and form a community...

Akitiri Sign Language, also known as Eltye eltyarrenke (hand signs), is (or was) a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Kaytetye...

Melbourne. Retrieved 14 April 2017. "Australian Irish Sign Language: a minority sign language within a larger sign language community". Culture in Crisis. Retrieved...

000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...

as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-handed such as in British Sign Language. Fingerspelling...

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Warlpiri Sign Language, it is (or perhaps was) one of the most elaborate of all Australian Aboriginal sign languages. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal...

Ka'apor Sign Language (also known as Urubu Sign Language or Urubu–Ka'apor Sign Language, although these are pejorative) is a village sign language used by...