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  2. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The manual alphabet can be used on either hand, normally the signer's dominant hand – that is, the right hand for right-handers, the left hand for left-handers. [ 1 ] Most frequently, the manual alphabet is signed just below the dominant shoulder of the signer. When used within other signs or in a context in which this is not plausible, this ...

  3. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Areas where ASL is in significant use alongside another sign language. 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 ...

  4. Two-handed manual alphabets - Wikipedia

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    Several manual alphabets in use around the world employ two hands to represent some or all of the letters of an alphabet, usually as a part of a deaf sign language. Two-handed alphabets are less widespread than one-handed manual alphabets. They may be used to represent the Latin alphabet (for example in the manual alphabet used in Turkish Sign ...

  5. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Ghanaian Sign Language alphabet. The earliest records of contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Gulf Coast region in what is now Texas and northern Mexico note a fully formed sign language already in use by the time of the Europeans' arrival there. [12] These records include the accounts of Cabeza de Vaca in 1527 and Coronado ...

  6. ASL-phabet - Wikipedia

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    ASL-phabet. 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. [3]

  7. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Eritrean Sign Language. creole. Eswatini Sign Language. Irish, British, & local. Ethiopian sign languages. 1 million signers of an unknown number of languages. Francophone African Sign Language. ASL & spoken French. The development of ASL in Francophone West Africa.

  8. 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 ...

  9. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to those of oral languages. Phonemes serve the same role between oral and signed languages, the main difference being oral languages are based on sound and signed languages are spatial and temporal. [1]

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