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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 ...
American Sign Language: Old French Sign Language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language: Native to the United States and Anglophone Canada 459,850 [5] Persian Sign Language: Language isolate: Native to Iran: 325,000 (2019) [6] Turkish Sign Language: from Ottoman Sign Language: Native to Turkey: 300,000 (2019) [7] Japanese Sign Language: JSL Family ...
On occasion, where the prevalence of deaf people is high enough, a deaf sign language has been taken up by an entire local community, forming what is sometimes called a "village sign language" [102] or "shared signing community". [103] Typically this happens in small, tightly integrated communities with a closed gene pool. Famous examples include:
The influence of French Sign Language (LSF) on ASL is readily apparent; for example, it has been found that about 58% of signs in modern ASL are cognate to Old French Sign Language signs. [7]: 7 [8]: 14 However, that is far less than the standard 80% measure used to determine whether related languages are actually dialects.
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.
When signing in ASL, people will not sign words the same way they are spoken either. The relationship between spoken dialect and ASL varies because there is association between certain signs and their words and they are signed differently because ASL is not signed the same way it is spoken. [8] [9]
Searching for words and sentences provides the corresponding signs within the target sign language. [3] Spreadthesign is available as a free access learning tool both as a website and an app. [4] [5] The project is largely supported by public institutions, public funding [6] and public partnerships, universities and academics. [7]
Frishberg was the first [49] [50] to use the term "classifier" in her 1975 paper on arbitrariness and iconicity in ASL to refer to the handshape unit used in classifier constructions. [51] The start of the study of sign language classifier coincided with a renewed interest in spoken language classifiers. [52]