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  2. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    The top most hand is the ASL sign for the letter /b/ with the different realizations of the same phoneme below it. The bottom left hand shows the fingers bent at the bottom joints and the bottom right hand shows the thumb being along the side of the hand. Each phoneme may have multiple allophones, i.e. different realizations of the same phoneme ...

  3. 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]

  4. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Hello in ASL (American Sign Language) Another variation of hello in ASL (American Sign Language) Sign languages exploit the unique features of the visual medium (sight), but may also exploit tactile features (tactile sign languages). Spoken language is by and large linear; only one sound can be made or received at a time.

  5. Age/sex/location - Wikipedia

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    Age/sex/location (commonly referred to by the shorthand A/S/L, asl or ASL) is an article of Internet slang used in instant messaging programs and in Internet chatrooms. It is used in shorthand as a question to quickly find out the age , sex , and general location of the person with whom someone is interacting.

  6. Sociolinguistics of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    It is important to note that the Black Deaf community is distinct from both the black and deaf communities. Black ASL as a sociolinguistic variant of ASL is distinctly Black. [5] Speakers of Black ASL do code-switch to ASL when speaking with people outside the Black community. [5] This sociolinguistic variation is what defines the Black Deaf ...

  7. Stokoe notation - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation (/ ˈ s t oʊ k i / STOH-kee) is the first [1] phonemic script used for sign languages.It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with Latin letters and numerals used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands.

  8. ASL interpreting - Wikipedia

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    ASL interpreting is the real-time translation between American Sign Language (ASL) and another language (typically English) to allow communication between parties who ...

  9. Vietnamese pronouns - Wikipedia

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    True pronouns are categorized into two classes depending on if they can be preceded by the plural marker chúng, bọn, or các.Like other Asian pronominal systems, Vietnamese pronouns indicate the social status between speakers and others in the conversation in addition to grammatical person and number.