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Signed modes of spoken languages, also known as manually coded languages, which are bridges between signed and spoken languages; The list of deaf sign languages is sorted regionally and alphabetically, and such groupings should not be taken to imply any genetic relationships between these languages (see List of language families). [5]
American Sign Language possesses a set of 26 signs known as the American manual alphabet, which can be used to spell out words from the English language. [55] It is rather a representation of the English alphabet, and not a unique alphabet of ASL, although commonly labeled as the "ASL alphabet". [ 56 ]
A double letter within a word is signed in different ways, through a bounce of the hand, a slide of the hand, or repeating the sign of a letter. [4] Letters are signed at a constant speed; a pause functions as a word divider. The first letter may be held for the length of a letter extra as a cue that the signer is about to start fingerspelling.
The interpretation flow is normally between a sign language and a spoken language that are customarily used in the same country, such as French Sign Language (LSF) and spoken French in France, Spanish Sign Language (LSE) to spoken Spanish in Spain, British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English in the U.K., and American Sign Language (ASL) and ...
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
Auslan – Sign Language Official language in: Australia; Avar – МагIарул МацI Spoken in: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Dagestan ( Russia) Avestan – 𐬆𐬬𐬈𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬥. Formerly spoken on: the eastern Iranian Plateau; The Avestan language is a Zoroastrian liturgical language; Awadhi – अवधी
The letters C, D, J, K, P, Q, T, V, X, and Y make the shape of the letter itself. The letters B, F, G, L, M, N, R, S, and W suggest the shape of the letter. The letters G, L and R suggest only the lowercase form of the letter. Only the letters H and Z do not have a strong relation to their shape or position in the alphabet.
Some languages have very few wh-words, where context and discourse are sufficient to elicit the information that one needs. ASL has many different wh-words, with certain wh-words having multiple variations. A list of the wh-words of ASL can be found below.