Sandy River Valley Sign Language was a village sign language of the 19th-century Sandy River Valley in Maine. Together with the more famous Martha's Vineyard...

American Sign Language. Sandy River Valley Sign Language is now extinct but once could be found around the Sandy River Valley in Maine. It was one of several...

of sign languages Pointing Sign name ASL interpreting In particular, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Henniker Sign Language, and Sandy River Valley Sign...

Sign Language, Sandy River Valley Sign Language (US) Inuit Sign Language (Canada) Jumla Sign Language, Jhankot Sign Language, Ghandruk Sign Language (Nepal)...

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...

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...

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...

Old Kentish Sign Language (OKSL) Pitta Pitta sign language Plateau Sign Language Sandy River Valley Sign Language Warluwarra sign language There are a...

Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...

therefore likely to have been better developed than MVSL. Sandy River Valley Sign Language Lane, Pillard, & French, "Origins of the American Deaf-World:...

referred to as a language, but it is mutually intelligible with the other dialects of North Straits Salish. Samish is a Coast Salish language and is closely...

The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun, Suk, Supik, Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central...

discrete subdivisions: the "North Midland" beginning north of the Ohio River valley area and extending westward into central Indiana, central Illinois, central...

Another sub-dialect is spoken in Southcentral Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley because it was settled in the 1930s (during the Great Depression) by immigrants...

Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley, is a distinctly Minnesota-like accent due to immigration of Minnesotans to the valley in the 1930s. A noticeable California...

called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...

Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi...

Biography of the English Language. Wadsworth Publishing. p. 353. ISBN 978-0-15-501645-3. Labov, William (2010). The Politics of Language Change: Dialect Divergence...

language online to help others reconnect with Inuit culture". CNN. Duncan Pryde Inuit Sign Language Yupik languages Uralo Siberian Inupiaq language "Greenland's...

youthful, white, urban, coastal speakers, and popularly associated with the valley girl and surfer dude youth subcultures. The possibility that this is, in...

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...

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...

Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family. Lushootseed is the general name for the dialect continuum...

Racine, Milwaukee); and, largely, northeastern Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley/Coal Region (Scranton and Wilkes-Barre). This is the dialect spoken in part...

Indigenous languages List of extinct Uto-Aztecan languages List of extinct languages of South America Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin "Maclean's...

Inuit Sign Language (IUR; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ, romanized: Inuit Uukturausingit) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of the...

[nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family (proposed only), as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North...

they also used English as a bridge language to communicate with each other in the absence of another common language. There were also some African Americans...

vocabulary of Spanish words that to this day are not found in popular Spanish language dictionaries. He was born into a poor, migrant farm working family in a...

German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other...