• Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) is the language of the deaf community in Poland. Polish Sign Language uses a distinctive one-handed...
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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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  • communities in Poland use Polish Sign Language, which belongs to the German family of Sign Languages. Languages other than Polish that have existed in the...
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  • Sign Language System, also known as Signed Language or Signed Polish, is a manually coded form of Polish that uses the signs of Polish Sign Language. It...
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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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  • German Sign Language family is a small language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language...
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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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  • Venezuelan Sign Language Irish Australian Catholic Old Polish Polish Sign Language Old French Sign Language (VLSF, before l'Épée) Eastern French: Old Danish...
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    Polish (endonym: język polski, [ˈjɛ̃zɨk ˈpɔlskʲi] , polszczyzna [pɔlˈʂt͡ʂɨzna] or simply polski, [ˈpɔlskʲi] ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic...
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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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  • Russian Sign Language (RSL) is the sign language used by the Deaf community in Russia, with what is possibly additional presence in Belarus and Tajikistan...
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  • The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia. It belongs to the French sign-language family. Bickford (2005) found that...
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    Estonian Sign Language was influenced by Russian and Finnish Sign Language; for example, the ESL sign for 'butterfly' developed from the Finnish sign for 'bird'...
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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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    Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by only 42% of the...
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  • The Polish złoty (alternative spelling: zloty; Polish: polski złoty, Polish: [ˈzwɔtɨ] ; abbreviation: zł; code: PLN) is the official currency and legal...
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  • Austrian Sign Language are related, but Bickford (2005) found that Hungarian, Slovak, and Czech Sign formed a cluster with Romanian, Bulgarian, and Polish Sign...
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  • The following are sign languages reported to be used by at least 10,000 people. Additional languages, such as Chinese Sign Language, are likely to have...
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  • (2005) found that Bulgarian Sign formed a cluster with Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, and Polish Sign. The language of the classroom is different...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Sign Language Kafr Qasem Sign Language Arab El-Naim Sign Language (or Al-Naim) Ein Mahel Sign Language Abu Kaf Bedouin Sign Language Al-Atrash Sign Language...
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    dangled somewhere between the Polish and Russian Groups, Finnish Sign Language (which belongs to the Swedish Sign Language family) had a French-origin MA...
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  • Latvian Sign Language (Latvian: latviešu zīmju valoda) is a sign language commonly used by deaf people in Latvia. Linguists use LSL as an acronym for...
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    one of the four major dialects of Polish, while others classify it as a separate regional language, distinct from Polish. The first mentions of Silesian...
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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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    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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    Greek, Polish, Romani, Romanian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian languages. Uralic languages – Hungarian: The only official language of the...
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