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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.
Officially recognized by Spanish Government. Native to Spain except Catalonia and Valencia. 523,000 (2017) Egyptian Sign Language. Arab sign-language family. Native to Egypt. 474,000 (2014) [4] American Sign Language. Old French Sign Language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language.
10. 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 ...
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 ...
International Sign (IS) is a pidgin sign language [1] which is used in a variety of different contexts, particularly as an international auxiliary language at meetings such as the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) congress, in some [2] European Union settings, [3] [4] [5] and at some UN conferences, [3] [5] [6] at events such as the Deaflympics, the Miss & Mister Deaf World, and Eurovision ...
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 ...
Preservation of the Sign Language, George W. Veditz (1913) Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural ...
419. Universal Decimal. 811'221.24. Sign languages are forms of non-verbal communication primarily used by the deaf and hearing-persons associated with the Deaf community. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sign languages.