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  2. ASLwrite - Wikipedia

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    Stop sign mock-up in English (top) and ASL (bottom) ASLwrite (ASL: ) is a writing system that developed from si5s. [1] It was created to be an open-source, continuously developing orthography for American Sign Language (ASL), trying to capture the nuances of ASL's features.

  3. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive name signs are not initialized, but rather use non-core ASL signs. They tend to be assigned and used by children, rather like "Blinky" in English. Parents do not give such names to their children, but most Deaf people do not have deaf parents and are assigned their name sign by classmates in their first school for the deaf.

  4. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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    The reason SEE-II signs vary from ASL is to add clarity so that the exact English word meant for the conversation is understood. For example- the sign for "car" in ASL is two "S" hands gesturing as if they are holding onto and moving a steering wheel. This is the same sign used for any automobile controlled by a steering wheel.

  5. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    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 nonmanual features. [6]

  6. SignWriting - Wikipedia

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    Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of written sign languages.It is highly featural and visually iconic: the shapes of the characters are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body; and their spatial arrangement on the page does not follow a sequential order unlike the letters of written words.

  7. American Sign Language literature - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community.Literary genres initially developed in residential Deaf institutes, such as American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] which is where American Sign Language developed as a language in the early 19th century. [2]

  8. Classifier constructions in sign languages - Wikipedia

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    [41] [42] These types of signs are referred to as frozen signs. [43] For example, the ASL sign FALL seems to have come from a classifier construction. This classifier construction consists of a V-shaped hand, which represents the legs, moving down. As it became more like a sign, it could also be used with non-animate referents, like apples or ...

  9. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    For example, in ASL (American Sign Language), facial components distinguish some signs from other signs. An example is the sign translated as not yet , which requires that the tongue touch the lower lip and that the head rotate from side to side, in addition to the manual part of the sign.