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  2. Sign name - Wikipedia

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    Donald Trump's sign name, elected sign of the year 2016 by the Swiss Federation of the Deaf. In Deaf culture and sign language, a sign name (or a name sign) is a special sign that is used to uniquely identify a person (a name).

  3. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    In some countries, such as Sri Lanka and Tanzania, each school for the deaf may have a separate language, known only to its students and sometimes denied by the school; on the other hand, countries may share sign languages, although sometimes under different names (Croatian and Serbian, Indian and Pakistani).

  4. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of sign languages by number of native signers - Wikipedia

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    Estimates for sign language use are very crude, and definitions of what counts as proficiency are varied. For most sign languages, there are no concrete estimates. For instance, it has been reported there are a million signers in Ethiopia , but there are only a fifth that number of deaf people, less than half of whom are fluent in sign, and in ...

  6. Category:Sign languages - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. History of sign language - Wikipedia

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    Over the next few decades sign language became accepted as a valid first language and schools shifted to a philosophy of "Total Communication", [20] instead of banning sign language. Wyatte C. Hall says that sign language is important for the development of deaf children growing up because without it, they could be at risk of many health ...

  8. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [ 6 ]

  9. Deaf culture - Wikipedia

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    An introduction to Deaf culture in American Sign Language (ASL) with English subtitles available. Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.

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