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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]
The following are sign languages reported to be used by at least 10,000 people. Additional languages, such as Chinese Sign Language , are likely to have more signers, but no data is available. Estimates for sign language use are very crude, and definitions of what counts as proficiency are varied.
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 ...
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
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.
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.
Former letter of the English, German, Sorbian, and Latvian alphabets Ꟊ ꟊ S with short stroke overlay Used for tau gallicum in Gaulish [10] S with diagonal stroke Used for Cupeño and Luiseño [30] Ꞅ ꞅ Insular S Variant of s [9] [3] Ƨ: Reversed S (Tone two) A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its ...
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.