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  2. British Sign Language - Wikipedia

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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 private correspondence from William Stokoe hinted at a formal name for the language in 1960, [ 3 ] the first usage of the term "British Sign Language" in an academic publication was likely by ...

  3. Two-handed manual alphabets - Wikipedia

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    This alphabet is used in the BANZSL group of sign languages. It has been used in British Sign Language and Auslan since at least the 19th century, and in New Zealand Sign Language since the 1970s. Variations of this alphabet are also used in dialects of Indo-Pakistani Sign Language. This chart shows the BANZSL alphabet.

  4. SignWriting - Wikipedia

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    Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of written sign languages.It is highly featural and visually iconic: the shapes of the characters are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body; and their spatial arrangement on the page does not follow a sequential order unlike the letters of written words.

  5. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    British Sign Language uses a two-handed alphabet. Two-handed manual alphabets are used by a number of deaf communities; one such alphabet is shared by users of British Sign Language, Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language (collectively known as the BANZSL language family) and another is used in Turkish Sign Language. Some of the letters are ...

  6. File:Sign language B.svg - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org الأبجدية الأمريكية اليدوية; Usage on av.wikipedia.org

  7. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Northern Ireland Sign Language: British (mixed) Norwegian Sign Language: French:Danish "Tegnspråk" (NSL) Polish Sign Language: Old-French, German "Polski Język Migowy" (PJM) Portuguese Sign Language: Swedish "Língua Gestual Portuguesa" (LGP) Romanian Sign Language: French "Limbaj Mimico-Gestual Românesc" (LMG) Russian Sign Language: French ...

  8. Category:British Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "British Sign Language" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.

  9. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...