• Spanish Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de Signos Española, LSE) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Spain and the people who live with them...
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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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  • Signed Spanish and Signed Exact Spanish are any of several manually coded forms of Spanish that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to...
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  • sign languages (described 1086) "Southwest European" Sign Languages Proto-Spanish Spanish Sign Language (dictionary 1851) Venezuelan Sign Language Irish...
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  • 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...
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    others. In Spain and some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, Spanish is called not only español but also castellano (Castilian), the language from the...
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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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  • ("Spanish Sign" - LSM is widely known by this name among the Deaf Community in Mexico, although the language is unrelated to Spanish or to Spanish Sign...
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  • The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...
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  • Catalan Sign Language (Catalan: Llengua de signes catalana, LSC; IPA: [ˈʎeŋɡwə ðə ˈsiŋnəs kətəˈlanə]) is a sign language used by around 18,000 people in...
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  • Sign Language), as well as to the local spoken Mayan languages and Spanish. Yucatec Maya Sign Language, is used in the Yucatán region by both hearing and...
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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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    The languages of Bolivia include Spanish; several dozen indigenous languages, most prominently Aymara, Quechua, Chiquitano, and Guaraní; Bolivian Sign Language...
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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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    have only Spanish-language signs and Spanish-speaking people. Younger generations of non-Hispanics in the United States choose to study Spanish as a foreign...
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    majority of languages of Spain belong to the Romance language family, of which Spanish is the sole one with official status as the national language. Others...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). Local varieties...
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  • Colombian Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de Señas Colombiana, LSC, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈleŋɡwa ðe ˈseɲas kolomˈbjana]) is the deaf sign language of Colombia...
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  • languages, the numero sign is understood as an abbreviation of the word for "number", e.g. Italian numero, French numéro, and Portuguese and Spanish número...
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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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  • Argentine Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de signos argentina; LSA) is used in Argentina. Deaf people attend separate schools, and use local sign languages out...
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  • Icelandic Sign Language (Icelandic: Íslenskt táknmál) is the sign language of the deaf community in Iceland. It is based on Danish Sign Language; until 1910...
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  • except July, August and December. ASLPI American Sign Language Proficiency Interview SLPI Sign Language Proficiency Interview Official ACTFL Oral Proficiency...
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    "peso" and "dollar". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in the Portuguese language. The sign is also used in several compound currency symbols...
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    Filipino Sign Language (FSL) or Philippine Sign Language (Filipino: Wikang pasenyas ng mga Pilipino), is a sign language originating in the Philippines...
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  • sign languages are American Sign Language (ASL), Mexican Sign Language (LSM), British Sign Language (BSL), Spanish Sign Language (LSE), and many more.   Transfer...
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    Helvetica typeface has been used. Bilingual signs appear in autonomous communities where languages in addition to Spanish are spoken, including the Basque Country...
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    an official language; however, Spanish is the de facto national language spoken by over 99% of the population making it the largest Spanish speaking country...
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    Quebec Sign Language, known in French as Langue des signes québécoise or Langue des signes du Québec (LSQ), is the predominant sign language of deaf communities...
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    Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym djudeoespanyol, Hebrew script: גﬞודﬞיאו־איספאנייול‎), also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from...
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