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  2. Plains Indian Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered [5] sign language common to various Plains Nations across what is now central Canada, the central and western United States and northern Mexico. [6]

  3. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language: United States and Canada: ASL is also officially recognized as a language in Canada due to the passage of Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act. 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 ...

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

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    According to many highly educated members of the ASL Deaf community, the number of fluent ASL native signers is closer to the tens of millions. Therefore, the statistics listed below, while taken from varying published sources, should be carefully vetted before being disseminated or cited elsewhere.

  5. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Non-manual elements may also be lexically contrastive. 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.

  6. Deaf 2023 Super Bowl performers make history signing in ASL ...

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    Troy Kotsur, Justina Miles and Colin Denny perform in American Sign Language and Plains Indian Sign Language at the Super Bowl LVII pregame show at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday.

  7. Varieties of American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Indian Signing System - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Signing System or Indian Sign System (ISS) is a convention for manually coded language used in India. [1] It uses the words (signs) of Indian Sign Language with the word order and grammar of at least six official oral languages of India, including Urdu (Signed Urdu), Hindi (Signed Hindi), Marathi (Signed Marathi), Telugu (Signed Telugu) [2] and Tamil (Signed Tamil).