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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 ]
The Indian Signing System or Indian Sign System (ISS) is a convention for manually coded language used in India. [1] It uses the words (signs) of Indian Sign Language with the word order and grammar of at least six official oral languages of India, including Urdu (Signed Urdu), Hindi (Signed Hindi), Marathi (Signed Marathi), Telugu (Signed Telugu) [2] and Tamil (Signed Tamil).
si5s is a writing system for American Sign Language that resembles a handwritten form of SignWriting. It was devised in 2003 in New York City by Robert Arnold, with an unnamed collaborator. [1] In July 2010 at the Deaf Nation World Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, it was presented and formally announced to the public.
Stop sign mock-up in English (top) and ASL (bottom) ASLwrite (ASL: ) is a writing system that developed from si5s. [1] It was created to be an open-source, continuously developing orthography for American Sign Language (ASL), trying to capture the nuances of ASL's features.
Bolivian Sign Language is sometimes considered a dialect of ASL. Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family. Others possibly influenced by ASL include Ugandan Sign Language, Kenyan Sign Language, Philippine Sign Language and ...
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of written sign languages.It is highly featural and visually iconic: the shapes of the characters are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body; and their spatial arrangement on the page does not follow a sequential order unlike the letters of written words.
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.
Language Origin Notes American Sign Language: United States and Canada: ASL is also officially recognized as a language in Canada due to the passage of Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act. Black American Sign Language is a dialect of ASL. Argentine Sign Language: Spain and Italy [citation needed] (Lengua de Señas Argentina – LSA) Bay ...