• Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Spanish: Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a form of sign language developed by deaf children in a number of schools in Nicaragua...
    24 KB (3,254 words) - 14:43, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sign language
    Arabic Sign Language. Known isolates include Nicaraguan Sign Language, Turkish Sign Language, Armenian Sign Language, Kata Kolok, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language...
    119 KB (13,875 words) - 21:44, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Nicaragua
    Sign Language Nicaraguan Sign Language has been of particular interest to linguists as one of the few languages whose birth was recorded. Nicaragua has...
    9 KB (1,113 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2024
  • 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...
    28 KB (995 words) - 20:48, 21 March 2024
  • Nativization (category Language acquisition)
    possible theoretical validity. Additionally, the emergence of Nicaraguan sign language without a prior established set of symbols puts forth new questions...
    16 KB (1,962 words) - 05:14, 26 February 2024
  • enough population of deaf people exists, a sign language will spontaneously arise (cf. Nicaraguan Sign Language). As Paris had been the largest city in France...
    4 KB (496 words) - 14:09, 13 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Nicaragua
    variety: vocabulary, accents and colloquial language can vary between towns and departments. Nicaraguan Sign Language emerged in the 1970s and 1980s among deaf...
    206 KB (18,971 words) - 16:55, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Language isolate
    situations, a language with no ancestor can arise. This frequently happens with sign languages—most famously in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language, where deaf...
    69 KB (4,407 words) - 08:09, 4 April 2024
  • social purposes. An example of the first is Nicaraguan Sign Language, which emerged when deaf children in Nicaragua were brought together for the first time...
    6 KB (794 words) - 10:46, 7 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Nicaraguans
    Middle Eastern-Nicaraguan community of Syrian, Armenian, Palestinian Nicaraguan, Jewish Nicaraguan, and Lebanese people in Nicaragua with a total population...
    28 KB (2,774 words) - 22:15, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Demographics of Nicaragua
    and banks. During the Nicaraguan Revolution and the Civil War, thousands of Nicaraguans left the country. After the 1990 Nicaraguan Elections some people...
    48 KB (2,679 words) - 07:42, 18 March 2024
  • discovered by studying Nicaraguan Sign Language and the history of acquisition. In Shepard-Kegl's observations at a Nicaraguan elementary school, she...
    80 KB (9,926 words) - 21:59, 31 January 2024
  • include school sign, such as Nicaraguan Sign Language, Penang Sign Language, and the various Tanzanian and Sri Lankan sign languages, which develop in...
    13 KB (1,656 words) - 05:55, 21 December 2023
  • publishings on the Nicaraguan Sign Language (or ISN, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua or Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense), a sign language spontaneously developed...
    6 KB (480 words) - 06:08, 9 November 2023
  • ISN (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    Nation ITAD Subscriber Numbers for VoIP PBX Nicaraguan Sign Language (Spanish: Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) Sloulin Field International Airport, a defunct...
    841 bytes (125 words) - 09:24, 29 October 2023
  • scholars argue it is pseudoscience. Nicaraguan sign language Shatz, Marilyn (2007). "On the development of the field of language development". In Hoff and Schatz...
    4 KB (488 words) - 22:12, 31 January 2024
  • sign languages, see for example: Deaf Education; List of sign languages; Nicaraguan Sign Language. One of the most active communities is in the Seattle area...
    9 KB (1,399 words) - 17:32, 12 February 2022
  • 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...
    16 KB (1,831 words) - 22:04, 29 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Language
    without a common language; for example, creole languages and spontaneously developed sign languages such as Nicaraguan Sign Language. This view, which...
    137 KB (16,057 words) - 00:04, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Creole language
    Lingua franca List of creole languages Macaronic language Nation language Nicaraguan Sign Language Arabic-based creole languages Assamese-based: Nagamese...
    71 KB (8,015 words) - 03:38, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Culture of Nicaragua
    home to 3 extinct languages, one of which was never classified. Nicaraguan Sign Language is also of particular interest to linguists. Central American Spanish...
    28 KB (3,186 words) - 21:32, 14 April 2024
  • Look up Nicaraguan or nicaraguan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nicaraguan may refer to: Something of, from, or related to Nicaragua, the largest...
    606 bytes (112 words) - 19:01, 17 May 2017
  • Thumbnail for Constructed language
    languages Glossolalia Language of the birds Spontaneous emergence of grammar Artificial language June and Jennifer Gibbons Nicaraguan Sign Language Origin...
    44 KB (5,165 words) - 02:46, 18 April 2024
  • passed in which Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) was named as the official language of deaf people in Nicaragua. NSL is a newer sign language that emerged...
    19 KB (2,668 words) - 05:14, 20 November 2023
  • Innateness hypothesis (category Language acquisition)
    the Nicaraguan sign language (NSL) by students in a school for the deaf also lends evidence to the critical-period hypothesis. Initially a pidgin sign language...
    23 KB (2,717 words) - 14:06, 25 August 2023
  • Uruguayan Sign Language, or Lengua de señas uruguaya (LSU), is the deaf sign language of Uruguay, used since 1910. It is not intelligible with neighboring...
    2 KB (121 words) - 16:37, 15 July 2022
  • Adamorobe Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language Nicaraguan Sign Language Language acquisition device Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language at Ethnologue...
    12 KB (1,390 words) - 00:48, 1 August 2023
  • observed today. Despite this, the emergence of new sign languages in modern times—Nicaraguan Sign Language, for example—may potentially offer insights into...
    175 KB (21,463 words) - 20:05, 17 April 2024
  • Network, a former UK organisation Lenguaje de Signos Nicaragüense, Nicaraguan Sign Language Livingston North railway station, Scotland; National Rail station...
    432 bytes (84 words) - 22:22, 5 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Canada
    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...
    190 KB (13,858 words) - 17:36, 18 April 2024