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  2. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    ASL does have a limited number of concatenative affixes. For example, the agentive suffix (similar to the English '-er') is made by placing two B or 5 hands in front of the torso, palms facing each other, and lowering them.

  3. Classifier constructions in sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Frishberg was the first [49] [50] to use the term "classifier" in her 1975 paper on arbitrariness and iconicity in ASL to refer to the handshape unit used in classifier constructions. [51] The start of the study of sign language classifier coincided with a renewed interest in spoken language classifiers. [52]

  4. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] ... For example, in English, prefixes like "re-" and suffixes like "-able" are affixes. In ASL, affixation can ...

  5. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The phonetics of verbal speech and sign language are similar because spoken dialect uses tone of voice to determine someone's mood and Sign Language uses facial expressions to determine someone's mood as well. Phonetics does not necessarily only relate to spoken language but it can also be used in American Sign Language (ASL) as well.

  6. Stokoe notation - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation (/ ˈ s t oʊ k i / STOH-kee) is the first [1] phonemic script used for sign languages.It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with Latin letters and numerals used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands.

  7. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    a-, an-: Pronunciation: /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/.Origin: Ancient Greek: ἀ-, ἀν-(a, an-). Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the ...

  8. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Korean standard sign language – manually coded spoken Korean. Macau Sign Language: Shanghai Sign Language "澳門手語" (MSL). Derives from the southern dialect of CSL. Malaysian Sign Language: ASL "Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia" (BIM) Maldivian Sign Language (Dhivehi Sign Language) Indian, ASL Maunabudhuk–Bodhe Sign Language: village: Nepal ...

  9. ASL-phabet - Wikipedia

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    ASL-phabet, or the ASL Alphabet, is a writing system developed by Samuel Supalla for American Sign Language (ASL). It is based on a system called SignFont, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which Supalla modified and streamlined for use in an educational setting with Deaf children.