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  2. Japanese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Nihon Shuwa (日本手話; JSL: Japanese Sign Language) Nihon Shuwa (JSL) is a natural language that is constructed by unique phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, like all languages. Taiou Shuwa (対応手話; Signed Japanese, or 日本語対応手話; Manually coded Japanese) Taiou Shuwa uses the Japanese language word order (grammar ...

  3. Japanese manual syllabary - Wikipedia

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    Japanese manual syllabary. The Japanese Sign Language syllabary (指文字, yubimoji, literally "finger letters") is a system of manual kana used as part of Japanese Sign Language (JSL). It is a signary of 45 signs and 4 diacritics representing the phonetic syllables of the Japanese language. Signs are distinguished both in the direction they ...

  4. Signed Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Signed Japanese. Japanese Equivalent Sign Language or Signed Japanese is a signed language that corresponds to Japanese. With this signed language, you can express Japanese correctly, and this signed language is useful to Japanese learners. Having a richer vocabulary than past signed languages can help increase communicative effectiveness in ...

  5. ILY sign - Wikipedia

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    The ILY is a sign from American Sign Language which, as a gesture, has moved into the mainstream. Seen primarily in the United States and other Americanized countries, the sign originated among deaf schoolchildren using American Sign Language to create a sign from a combination of the signs for the letters I, L, and Y (I L ove Y ou). [1]

  6. Deafness in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Formed in 1993, D-Pro is a Deaf activist organization in Japan whose ideology is supported by the "bicultural model of Deaf society." [7] Under the bicultural or bilingual model of deafness, there is a distinction between a Deaf persons' use of native sign language as a first language, and their use of written language as a second. [9]

  7. Sign language - Wikipedia

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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 are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. [1]

  8. Ai (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Meaning. In Japanese love 愛 or indigo 藍, in Chinese/Vietnamese love, affection (愛), or mugwort (艾). Region of origin. China, Japan, Vietnam. Ai is a Japanese and Chinese and Vietnamese given name. In Japanese, it is almost always used as a feminine Japanese given name, written as あい in hiragana, アイ in katakana, 愛, 藍 or ...

  9. Kansai dialect - Wikipedia

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    Do not let your bag get snatched!" The Kansai dialect (関西弁, Kansai-ben, also known as Kansai-hōgen (関西方言)) is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan. In Japanese, Kansai-ben is the common name and it is called Kinki dialect (近畿方言, Kinki-hōgen) in technical terms.