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    in Belgium." LSFB, or French Belgian Sign Language, is used primarily in Wallonia and Brussels and is related to LSF and other Francosign languages. It...
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  • Belgian Sign Language (French: Langue des signes de Belgique francophone; LSFB) is the deaf sign language of the French language Community of Belgium...
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  • Flemish Sign Language (Dutch: Vlaamse Gebarentaal, VGT) is a deaf sign language of Belgium. It is closely related to French Belgian Sign Language, but they...
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  • German Sign Language may be a stronger possibility) Belgian Sign Language (c. 1800 – c. 2000), split during the federalisation of Belgium Flemish Sign Language...
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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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    French Sign Language is related and partially ancestral to Dutch Sign Language (NGT), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Belgian-French Sign Language (LSFB)...
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    Convention on Road Signs and Signals. The official typeface on road signs in Belgium is SNV. Belgium signed the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals on...
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  • Dutch Sign Language (Dutch: Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the predominant sign language used by deaf people...
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    German-speaking community of Belgium[citation needed]. It is unclear how many use German Sign Language as their main language; Gallaudet University estimated...
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  • Italian Sign Language or LIS (Lingua dei Segni Italiana) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s,...
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  • Somali Sign Language.) As well as Kenyan Sign Language, a number of other languages have been used for instruction in Kenya: Belgian Sign Language (in one...
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    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...
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    former Belgian Minister of Justice and director of the Belgian French-language broadcasts on the BBC (1940–44), suggested in a broadcast that Belgians use...
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  • France, Signed French uses the signs of French Sign Language; the Belgium system uses the signs of French Belgian Sign Language, and in Canada the signs of...
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    site of the Belgian monarchy Official site of the Belgian federal government Belgium. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Belgium at UCB Libraries...
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    creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
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  • Belgium's Parliament of the French Community recognised French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) by decree in October 2003. The recognition entails: cultural...
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  • euro sign should be placed in front of the amount without any space in English, but after the amount in most other languages. In English the euro sign –...
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    French Sign Language or variations.[citation needed] American Sign Language is also practiced in the country. Dutch, one of the languages of Belgium, was...
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  • or silcrow. In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German: Paragrafzeichen). The section sign is often used when referring...
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    the only school in England that used a sign language other than British Sign Language, namely Belgian Sign Language introduced from Brussels by the two Daughters...
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    use of official languages in Belgium. A factor in the Belgian Revolution of the 1830s was the rising dominance of the Dutch language in the southern provinces...
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    have national sign languages, such as Algerian Sign Language, Tunisian Sign Language, Ethiopian Sign Language. Other sign languages are restricted to small...
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    1830 Belgian Revolution, establishing the modern Belgian state, officially recognized at the London Conference of 1830. The first King of Belgium, Leopold...
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    2005, the Belgian revolution of 1830 was depicted in one of the highest value Belgian coins ever minted, the 100 euro "175 Years of Belgium" coin. The...
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    continuing past the sign. In many countries, the sign is a red octagon with the word STOP, in either English or the national language of that particular...
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  • partition of Belgium is a hypothetical situation, which has been discussed by both Belgian and international media, envisioning a split of Belgium along linguistic...
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    Residents of Belgium (both Belgian citizens and foreigners) receive their identity/resident cards from their local municipality. Belgian citizens who...
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    country's head of state and commander-in-chief of the Belgian Armed Forces. There have been seven Belgian monarchs since independence in 1830. The incumbent...
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    preferred to counter expansion of Prussia. However, after the Belgian Revolution, language policy changed in favor of German while French was maintained...
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