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    Inuit Sign Language (IUR, Inuktitut: Inuit Uukturausingit ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of the Inuit people...
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    The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent...
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    Russia. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskaleut. Inuit Sign Language is a critically...
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    deaf Inuit in Nunavut: The role of "Inuit sign language"". Canadian Psychology. 41 (1): 61. doi:10.1037/h0086880. Brentari (2010) ed. Sign Languages, p...
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    their language family. Arctic cultural area (Inuit languages, including Inuit Sign Language) Subarctic culture area (Na-Dene and Algonquian languages) Eastern...
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    Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL) Hawai'i Sign Language (HPSL) Inuit Sign Language (IUR) Jamaican Country Sign Language (KS) Maritime Sign Language (MSL) Old...
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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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  • Language (1987?) Black American Sign Language and "Eskimo Sign Language"? (dubious: the indigenous Inuit Sign Language is an isolate) A mixture of LSF...
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    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...
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    (/ɪˈnuːpiæt/ i-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and...
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  • Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi...
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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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  • Although unrelated, perhaps Inuit Sign Language played and continues to play a similar role across Inuit Nunangat and the various Inuit dialects. The original...
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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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  • 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...
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    Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
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    also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the North American tree...
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    the population mainly speaks Danish; Inuit Sign Language is the language of the deaf community. The nomadic Inuit were traditionally shamanistic, with...
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  • 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...
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  • primary languages for communication by deaf persons in Canada." Inuit Sign Language (IUR), used in Canada's Arctic communities, was developed locally...
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  • Nunavut in Canada Inuit Sign Language – Atgangmuurngniq, ᐊᑦᒐᖕᒨᕐᖕᓂᖅ or ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ Spoken in: Nunavut in Canada Inuktitut – ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Official language in: the Canadian...
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    closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern...
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  • called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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  • this cultural context. For instance, many Alaska Native languages determine silence to be a sign of respect and a demonstration that one is listening. However...
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    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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  • Henniker Sign Language was a village sign language of 19th-century Henniker, New Hampshire and surrounding villages in the US. It was one of three local...
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    The Blackfoot language, also called Siksiká (its denomination in ISO 639-3, English: /ˈsɪksəkə/ SIK-sə-kə; Siksiká [sɪksiká], syllabics ᓱᖽᐧᖿ), often anglicised...
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  • Canadian Inuit/Inuktitut/Inuktut/Inuktun) comprises several Inuit language varieties spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by Canadian Inuit who call...
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    The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland). The ancestors of the...
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    Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf African Americans...
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