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Deaf sign languages, which are the preferred languages of Deaf communities around the world; these include village sign languages, shared with the hearing community, and Deaf-community sign languages Auxiliary sign languages , which are not native languages but sign systems of varying complexity, used alongside spoken languages.
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 more signers, but no data is available. Estimates for sign language use are very crude, and definitions of what counts as proficiency are varied.
Madsen, Willard J. (1982), Intermediate Conversational Sign Language. Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 978-0-913580-79-0. O'Reilly, S. (2005). Indigenous Sign Language and Culture; the interpreting and access needs of Deaf people who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in Far North Queensland. Sponsored by ASLIA, the Australian Sign ...
Sign languages are forms of non-verbal communication primarily used by the deaf and hearing-persons associated with the Deaf community. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sign languages . Subcategories
Moroccan Sign Language (MSL) is the language of the deaf community of Tetouan and some other cities of Morocco. American Peace Corps volunteers created Moroccan Sign Language in 1987 in Tetouan from American Sign Language (ASL) and the existing signs; there is less than a 50% lexical similarity with ASL.
Most sign languages are natural languages, different in construction from oral languages used in proximity to them, and are employed mainly by deaf people in order to communicate. Many sign languages have developed independently throughout the world, and no first sign language can be identified.
The influence of French Sign Language (LSF) on ASL is readily apparent; for example, it has been found that about 58% of signs in modern ASL are cognate to Old French Sign Language signs. [7]: 7 [8]: 14 However, that is far less than the standard 80% measure used to determine whether related languages are actually dialects.
Sign languages of the United States (1 C, 11 P) This page was last edited on 27 September 2021, at 02:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...