• Danish Sign Language (Danish: Dansk tegnsprog, DTS) is the sign language used in Denmark. Henri Wittmann (1991) assigned DSL to the French Sign Language...
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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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  • Danish, Italian), German, Japanese, and language isolates. Contact sign Intercultural competence Legal recognition of sign languages List of sign languages...
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    Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken, namely...
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  • The Danish Sign Language family comprises three languages: Danish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language (including Malagasy Sign Language) and Icelandic...
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  • Icelandic Sign Language (Icelandic: Íslenskt táknmál) is the sign language of the deaf community in Iceland. It is based on Danish Sign Language; until 1910...
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    syllabics. Inuit Sign Language (IUR, Inuktitut: Inuit Uukturausingit ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of the Inuit...
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  • Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language...
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  • Norwegian Sign Language, or NSL (Norwegian Bokmål: norsk tegnspråk or Nynorsk: norsk teiknspråk, NTS), is the principal sign language in Norway. There...
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  • Swedish Sign Language family is a language family of sign languages, including Swedish Sign Language, Portuguese Sign Language, and Finnish Sign Language. Swedish...
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    Australian and New Zealand Sign Language (BANZSL) is the language of which British Sign Language (BSL), Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) may be considered...
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    Wikimedia Commons Sales catalog of road signs in Denmark (Danish) Danish Law Database (English translation) The Danish Road Standards portal (English translation)...
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    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...
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  • The Malagasy Sign Language (Malagasy: Tenin'ny Tanana Malagasy, abbreviated TTN) is a sign language used for communication among hearing impaired people...
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    minority language with constitutional rights and the first language of the Icelandic deaf community. During the time of Danish rule, Danish was a minority...
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  • grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages. Unlike the sign languages that have evolved naturally...
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  • same word is used in Slovak. In Danish, it is snabel-a ('elephant's trunk A'). It is not used for prices, where in Danish à means 'at (per piece)'. In Dutch...
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    The official language of Botswana is English, while Setswana is considered to be a national language. English, which was inherited from colonial rule...
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  • Parliament established the Danish Sign Language Council "to devise principles and guidelines for the monitoring of the Danish sign language and offer advice and...
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  • are not available, the Danish Deaf Association estimates that there are currently about 5,000 deaf users of Danish Sign Language, which is equivalent to...
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    International Sign (IS) is a pidgin sign language which is used in a variety of different contexts, particularly as an international auxiliary language at meetings...
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  • In sign languages, the term classifier construction (also known as classifier predicates) refers to a morphological system that can express events and...
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    speakers). The remainder of the population mainly speaks Danish; Greenlandic Sign Language is the language of the deaf community. Greenland has been a very isolated...
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    Ø (or minuscule: ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used as to represent the mid front rounded...
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  • denotations of "by the number, with the number"). In Romance languages, the numero sign is understood as an abbreviation of the word for "number", e.g...
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  • International Sign Writing Alphabet (ISWA). As Sutton was teaching DanceWriting to the Royal Danish Ballet, Lars von der Lieth, who was doing research on signed language...
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    North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility...
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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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    other languages the best, while Swedes understand the least. Danish and Norwegian are especially comprehensible to one another. In general, Danish and Norwegian...
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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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