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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 ...
A creole language, [2][3][4] or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period. [5]
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.
American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). [1] Local varieties have developed in many countries, but there is little research on which should be considered dialects of ASL (such as Bolivian Sign Language) and which have diverged to the point of being ...
Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi Pidgin Sign Language, [ 2 ] is an indigenous sign language native to Hawaiʻi. Historical records document its presence on the islands as early as the 1820s, but HSL was not ...
Native to. Nicaragua. Region. The Managua region and spreading throughout the country. Native speakers. 3,000 (1997) [1] Language family. Deaf-community sign language: developed as a creole language from home and idioglossic sign, with the addition of an ASL -influenced manual alphabet. Language codes.
Sara Hale has been increasing communication access in Topeka by offering free American Sign Language (ASL) classes at Faith Lutheran Church at 1716 S.W. Gage Boulevard for more than 15 years.
Israeli Sign Language. Language codes. ISO 639-3. isr. Glottolog. isra1236. Israeli Sign Language, also known as Shassi[2] or ISL, is the most commonly used sign language by the Deaf community of Israel. Some other sign languages are also used in Israel, among them Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.