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    In sign languages, orientation (ORI) is the distinctive relative degree of rotation of the hand when signing. Orientation is one of five components of...
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  • migration Orientation (sign language), the orientation of the hands when signing Terms of orientation, language used to indicate the orientation of objects...
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  • hand-configuration, location, movement or orientation. Icelandic sign language is used as a first language of deaf people in Iceland. The majority of...
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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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    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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    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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  • alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language. The letters and digits are signed as follows. In informal contexts, the handshapes are...
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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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    German Sign Language or Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS), is the sign language of the deaf community in Germany, Luxembourg and in the German-speaking community...
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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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  • is the SIG, an abbreviation of signation. Movement is one of five components of a sign—with handshape (DEZ), orientation (ORI), location (TAB), and nonmanual...
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  • components of a sign, along with location (TAB), orientation (ORI), movement (SIG), and nonmanual features. Different sign languages make use of different...
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  • Location is one of five components, or parameters, of a sign, along with handshape (DEZ), orientation (ORI), movement (SIG), and nonmanual features. A particular...
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  • implementation of SignWriting to write Italian Sign Language. In SignWriting, a combination of iconic symbols for handshapes, orientation, body locations...
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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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  • signs were also not found. Sign features that often contrast in established sign languages, such as where the sign is articulated or the orientation of...
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    direction sign Sources Orientation signs G11: Portal oriantation sign G14: Diagram orientation sign G15: Lane orientation sign G18: Tabular orientation sign Sources...
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    Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite...
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  • Institute & Manuscripts Library, University of Kerala, India Orientation (sign language) A standard astronomical abbreviation for Orion (constellation)...
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  • contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between deaf individuals using a sign language and hearing...
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    Cuban Sign Language, ("lengua de señas cubana" or LSC) is the language used by the Deaf community in Cuba. There are approximately 19,000 users of the...
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  • The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...
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    related to sign can be found in the two normal orientations and orientability in general. In computing, an integer value may be either signed or unsigned...
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    Stokoe notation (category American Sign Language)
    the position, movement, and orientation of the hands. It was first published as the organizing principle of Sign Language Structure: An Outline of the...
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  • Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to, yet dissimilar from, those of oral languages...
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  • Hausa Sign Language (HSL) or Maganar Hannu is the indigenous sign language of the Deaf community in northern Nigeria. There are no statistics on the number...
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  • Warlmanpa Sign Language is a highly developed Australian Aboriginal sign language used by the Warlmanpa people of northern Australia The first recorded...
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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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    The orientation of a real vector space or simply orientation of a vector space is the arbitrary choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented...
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    form words. Expression is one of five components of a sign, along with handshape (DEZ), orientation (ORI), location (TAB), and movement (SIG). A major component...
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