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  2. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    (a.k.a. Bali Sign Language, Benkala Sign Language) Laotian Sign Language (related to Vietnamese languages; may be more than one SL) Korean Sign Language (KSDSL) Japanese "한국수어 (or 한국수화)" / "Hanguk Soo-hwa" Korean standard sign language – manually coded spoken Korean. Macau Sign Language: Shanghai Sign Language "澳門手語 ...

  3. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of sign languages by number of native signers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    LOVE CHILD FATHER LOVE CHILD "The father loves the child." However, other word orders may also occur since ASL allows the topic of a sentence to be moved to sentence-initial position, a phenomenon known as topicalization. In object–subject–verb (OSV) sentences, the object is topicalized, marked by a forward head-tilt and a pause: CHILD topic, FATHER LOVE CHILD topic, FATHER LOVE "The ...

  6. Varieties of American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Moroccan Sign Language (MSL) is the language of the deaf community of Tetouan and some other cities of Morocco. American Peace Corps volunteers created Moroccan Sign Language in 1987 in Tetouan from American Sign Language (ASL) and the existing signs; there is less than a 50% lexical similarity with ASL.

  7. Category:Sign languages - Wikipedia

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    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 . Subcategories

  8. History of sign language - Wikipedia

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    Juan Pablo Bonet, Reduccion de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos (Madrid, 1620). One of the earliest written references to a sign language is from the fifth century BC, in Plato's Cratylus, where Socrates says: "If we hadn't a voice or a tongue, and wanted to express things to one another, wouldn't we try to make signs by moving our hands, head, and the rest of our body ...

  9. Category:Sign languages by country - Wikipedia

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