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    Dominican Sign Language(DGS) is a local variant of American Sign Language(ASL) used in the Dominican Republic. Many deaf Dominicans use home sign, and...
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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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    Irish Sign Language (ISL, Irish: Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland. It is...
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  • South African Sign Language (SASL, Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal) is the primary sign language used by deaf people in South Africa. The South African...
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    The Dominican Republic is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean...
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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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  • is a Banzsl language which is related to British Sign Language. AISL was brought to Australia from Ireland in 1875 by a group of Dominican nuns (including...
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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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    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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    2007. Haiti & The Dominican Republic IMF population estimates. "Hispaniola". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins...
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    English language and excludes indirect translations from other languages. A black triangle (within the standard down-arrow-shape of stop signs) was a symbol...
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  • Thumbnail for Dominican Republic–Haiti relations
    Dominican Republic–Haiti relations are the diplomatic relations between the nations of Dominican Republic and Haiti. Relations have long been hostile due...
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    Charlie Villanueva (category American sportspeople of Dominican Republic descent)
    the organization. A first-generation Dominican-American, Villanueva is fluent in Spanish, as it is the language he speaks with his family. Villanueva...
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    first United States occupation of the Dominican Republic lasted from 1916 to 1924. It aimed to force the Dominicans to repay their large debts to European...
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    The Dominican Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Dominicana), also known as the April Revolution (Spanish: Revolución de Abril), took place between April...
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    of the Dominican Republic (Spanish: Presidente de la República Dominicana) is both the head of state and head of government of the Dominican Republic...
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    other symbols instead of currency symbols. A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined...
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  • Thumbnail for History of the Dominican Republic
    The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began in 1492 when the Genoa-born navigator Christopher Columbus, working for the Crown of Castile, happened...
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  • Spanish Denominación de Origen Calificada ISO 639:d - code for Dominican Sign Language DNS over QUIC - a expansion of the DNS standard, wants to combine...
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    sign languages are used or emerging, including Albarradas Sign Language, Chatino Sign Language, Tzotzil Sign Language, and Tijuana Sign Language. The...
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    The national anthem of the Dominican Republic (Spanish: Himno nacional de República Dominicana), also known by its incipit Valiant Quisqueyans (Spanish:...
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    nicknamed El Jefe (Spanish: [el ˈxefe])), was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination...
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  • Felipe López (basketball) (category American sportspeople of Dominican Republic descent)
    broadcaster with Spanish-language networks. His life story was the subject of an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary entitled The Dominican Dream. López's father...
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    Knights), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It...
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    legislation became Public Law 109-053 when it was signed by President George W. Bush on August 2, 2005. The Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala...
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    47 The American Sign Language and English Secondary School, is a public high school for the deaf in Kips Bay, Manhattan, New York City. Operated by the...
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    The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola. It has an...
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    The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (Spanish: Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana or LIDOM) is a professional baseball...
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    identify Haitian immigrants living along the border in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ordered the execution of these...
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    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Dominican Republic do not possess the same legal protections as non-LGBT residents, and face...
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