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Auslan (/ ˈ ɒ z l æ n /; an abbreviation of Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community.Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL); the three have descended from the same parent language, and together comprise the BANZSL language family.
Black American Sign Language is a dialect of ASL. Argentine Sign Language: Spain and Italy [citation needed] (Lengua de Señas Argentina – LSA) Bay Islands Sign Language: village: Honduras. Deaf-blind. French Harbour Sign Language Bolivian Sign Language: ASL/Andean "Lenguaje de Señas Bolivianas" (LSB) Brazilian Sign Language: French
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 ...
Australian Sign Language, also known as Auslan, is the primary signed language for deaf Australians. [citation needed] It is hard to tell how many signing deaf people are in Australia as much information is unavailable, and what information is available is largely out of date. [1]
Papua New Guinea Sign Language (c. 1990), which is a creole formed with Auslan, used by 30,000 people [6] New Zealand SL (1800s), used by approximately 20,000 people [7] Northern Ireland SL (19th century - with American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language influences) South African SL (somewhere between 1846 & 1881), used by perhaps 235,000 people
Sign languages do not have widely accepted written forms, so deaf individuals learn to read and write an oral language. This is known as sign–print bilingualism—a deaf individual has fluency in (at least) one sign language as their primary language and has literacy skills in the written form of (at least) one oral language, without access ...
Uruguayan Sign Language: French Sign Language family: Uruguay: Legally recognized in Uruguay since 2001 under Law 17.378 [9] [10] 20,000 (2019) [11] Hong Kong Sign Language: Chinese Sign Language family: Hong Kong: 20,000 (2007) Nepali Sign Language: Indo-Pakistani Sign Language orlanguage isolate (disputed) Nepal: 20,000 (2014) Taiwan Sign ...
Many Australian Aboriginal cultures have or traditionally had a manually coded language, a signed counterpart of their oral language. This appears to be connected with various speech taboos between certain kin or at particular times, such as during a mourning period for women or during initiation ceremonies for men, as was also the case with Caucasian Sign Language but not Plains Indian Sign ...