American Sign Language

American Sign Language: 𝣷𝪜 𝤃𝪜 𝣜𝪜 (from ASL)

United States of America
United States of America

A sign language used primarily in the United States of America and Canada.

American Sign Language
Stokoe notation
Sutton SignWriting

language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate


ASL

American Sign Language
American Sign Language#English


langue des signes américaine

fr-noun

langue des signes américaine f (uncountable)

American Sign Language
American Sign Language


langue des signes française

langue des signes française f (uncountable)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-langue des signes française.wav

French Sign Language
French Sign Language


French Sign Language

Old French Sign Language
Old French Sign Language

A dactylological sign language used in seven different countries, based on Old French Sign Language. ISO 639-3 code: fsl.


British Sign Language

A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behaviour to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on English words, but BSL syntax and grammar are not based on English.

Teanga Chomharthaíochta na Breataine

sign language used in the United Kingdom


Kenyan Sign Language

A particular sign language, used in Kenya.


Adamorobe Sign Language

An indigenous sign language used in Adamorobe, a village of Ghana.


Yucatec Maya Sign Language

A sign language used in Yucatán, Mexico.


Maritime Sign Language

British Sign Language
British Sign Language

An endangered sign language descended from Old British Sign Language used in Atlantic Canada.


Ecuadorian Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Ecuador.


Quebec Sign Language

A sign language of the French Sign Language family used primarily in Quebec.


Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language

A sign language used in Hawaii. The language is named after the Hawaiian Pidgin spoken language and is not itself a pidgin.


Japanese Sign Language

Sign language used in Japan. ISO 639-3 code: jsl.


Jhankot Sign Language

The sign language used in Jhankot, a village in western Nepal.


Malaysian Sign Language

The sign language used in Malaysia, ISO 639-3 code: xml.


Danish Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Denmark.


Dutch Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of the Netherlands.

Flemish Sign Language

which is distinct from DSL, despite spoken Flemish being a variety of spoken Dutch


Estonian Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Estonia.


Finnish Sign Language

A variant of sign language commonly used in Finland.


Flemish Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Flanders.

Dutch Sign Language

which is distinct from FSL, despite spoken Flemish being a variety of spoken Dutch


Greek Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Greece.


Icelandic Sign Language

The sign language of Iceland's deaf community.


Slovenian Sign Language

A sign language used in Serbia and Slovenia.


Swiss-German Sign Language

The primary sign language of Liechtenstein and German-speaking areas of Switzerland.


Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

A sign language used by some of the bedouins of al-Sayyid.


Australian Sign Language

Auslan; the sign language of the Australian deaf community.


амслен

ru-noun+

амсле́н • (amslén) m inan (genitive амсле́на, nominative plural амсле́ны, genitive plural амсле́нов)

амсле́н (canonical)
amslén (romanization)
амсле́на (genitive)
амсле́ны (nominative plural)
амсле́нов (genitive plural)
амсле́н (nominative singular)
амсле́ны (nominative plural)
амсле́на (genitive singular)
амсле́нов (genitive plural)
амсле́ну (dative singular)
амсле́нам (dative plural)
амсле́н (accusative singular)
амсле́ны (accusative plural)
амсле́ном (instrumental singular)
амсле́нами (instrumental plural)
амсле́не (prepositional singular)
амсле́нах (plural prepositional)

American Sign Language (language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate)


German Swiss Sign Language

Swiss-German Sign Language
Swiss-German Sign Language


Swiss German Sign Language

Swiss-German Sign Language
Swiss-German Sign Language#English

Alternative form of Swiss-German Sign Language


американский язык жестов

америка́нский

америка́нский язы́к же́стов • (amerikánskij jazýk žéstov) m inan (genitive америка́нского языка́ же́стов, nominative plural америка́нские языки́ же́стов, genitive plural америка́нских языко́в же́стов)

америка́нский язы́к же́стов (canonical)
amerikánskij jazýk žéstov (romanization)
америка́нского языка́ же́стов (genitive)
америка́нские языки́ же́стов (nominative plural)
америка́нских языко́в же́стов (genitive plural)
америка́нский язы́к же́стов (nominative singular)
америка́нские языки́ же́стов (nominative plural)
америка́нского языка́ же́стов (genitive singular)
америка́нских языко́в же́стов (genitive plural)
америка́нскому языку́ же́стов (dative singular)
америка́нским языка́м же́стов (dative plural)
америка́нский язы́к же́стов (accusative singular)
америка́нские языки́ же́стов (accusative plural)
америка́нским языко́м же́стов (instrumental singular)
америка́нскими языка́ми же́стов (instrumental plural)
америка́нском языке́ же́стов (prepositional singular)
америка́нских языка́х же́стов (plural prepositional)

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RSL

Russian Sign Language
Russian Sign Language#English


Gorilla Sign Language

Blend of gorilla + American Sign Language. Coined by Francine "Penny" Patterson, president and research director at the Gorilla Foundation.

blend

A personally modified form of American Sign Language intended for communication with gorillas, especially some of those that are subjects of research at the Gorilla Foundation.


香港手語

ㄒㄧㄤ ㄍㄤˇ ㄕㄡˇ ㄩˇ

Сянган шоуюй

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ kɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hœːŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ³⁵ sɐu̯³⁵ jyː¹³/

/hœːŋ⁵⁵ kɔːŋ³⁵ sɐu̯³⁵ jyː¹³/

Hong Kong Sign Language
Hong Kong Sign Language


BANZSL

Sign languages that have foreign vocabulary based on alphabetic fingerspelled elements include American Sign Language (ASL) […] and the British Sign Language (BSL) family, BANZSL[…]

2008, Kearsy Cormier, Adam Schembri, Martha E. Tyron, “One Hand or Two? Nativisation of Fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL”, in Sign Language & Linguistics, volume 11, number 1, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 3–44:

But when BANZSL and ASL were compared, 44% cognate and 31% identical signs have been observed.

2016 January 5, Genie Gertz, Patrick Boudreault, The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 234:

w:British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Language

Acronym of British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Language.


Protactile

From pro- + tactile, first used c. 2012.

2014 August 20, John Lee Clark, “Pro-Tactile: Bursting the Bubble.”, in Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience, Handtype Press, →ISBN:

Exploring the linguistic phenomenon of pro-tactile has lead Terra Edwards to make distinctions between Tactile ASL (TASL) and Visual ASL (VASL) (www.protactile.org, October 3, 2014).

2016 November 22, Massimiliano Spotti, Nelson Flores, Ofelia Garcia, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257:

ProTactile builds on this quality of expression, alive with decisions made on the fly, touches become pass-words for fields of composition as yet uncharted.

2020 October 9, Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the Useless, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.


Cànan-soidhnidh Bhreatainn

Cànan-soidhnidh Bhreatainn
Chànan-soidhnidh Bhreatainn


cànan-soidhnidh

cànan (“language”) + soidhnidh (“of signing”)


Cànan-soidhnidh Aimeireaga

Cànan-soidhnidh Aimeireaga
Chànan-soidhnidh Aimeireaga


Pidgin Signed English

A sign language based on American Sign Language (ASL) and English.


Catalan Sign Language

A certain Catalan-based sign language, used predominantly in Catalonia and Barcelona.


Swedish Sign Language

A sign language commonly used in Sweden.


Spanish Sign Language

A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas.


Romanian Sign Language

A sign language used by deaf people in Romania


Korean Sign Language

A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on Korean words in South Korea. ISO 639-3 code: kvk.

(rare) A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on Korean words in North Korea.


Russian Sign Language

A sign language used by deaf people in Russian-speaking countries.


язык жестов

ru-noun+

язы́к же́стов • (jazýk žéstov) m inan (genitive язы́ка же́стов, nominative plural язы́ки же́стов, genitive plural язы́ков же́стов)

язы́к же́стов (canonical)
jazýk žéstov (romanization)
язы́ка же́стов (genitive)
язы́ки же́стов (nominative plural)
язы́ков же́стов (genitive plural)
язы́к же́стов (nominative singular)
язы́ки же́стов (nominative plural)
язы́ка же́стов (genitive singular)
язы́ков же́стов (genitive plural)
язы́ку же́стов (dative singular)
язы́кам же́стов (dative plural)
язы́к же́стов (accusative singular)
язы́ки же́стов (accusative plural)
язы́ком же́стов (instrumental singular)
язы́ками же́стов (instrumental plural)
язы́ке же́стов (prepositional singular)
язы́ках же́стов (plural prepositional)

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ru:язык жестов


русский жестовый язык

ру́сский же́стовый язы́к • (rússkij žéstovyj jazýk) m inan (genitive ру́сского же́стового язы́ка, nominative plural ру́сские же́стовые язы́ки, genitive plural ру́сских же́стовых язы́ков)

ру́сский же́стовый язы́к (canonical)
rússkij žéstovyj jazýk (romanization)
ру́сского же́стового язы́ка (genitive)
ру́сские же́стовые язы́ки (nominative plural)
ру́сских же́стовых язы́ков (genitive plural)
ру́сский же́стовый язы́к (nominative singular)
ру́сские же́стовые язы́ки (nominative plural)
ру́сского же́стового язы́ка (genitive singular)
ру́сских же́стовых язы́ков (genitive plural)
ру́сскому же́стовому язы́ку (dative singular)
ру́сским же́стовым язы́кам (dative plural)
ру́сский же́стовый язы́к (accusative singular)
ру́сские же́стовые язы́ки (accusative plural)
ру́сским же́стовым язы́ком (instrumental singular)
ру́сскими же́стовыми язы́ками (instrumental plural)
ру́сском же́стовом язы́ке (prepositional singular)
ру́сских же́стовых язы́ках (plural prepositional)

Russian Sign Language
Russian Sign Language

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РЖЯ

ру́сский же́стовый язы́к
русский жестовый язык#Russian

Initialism of ру́сский же́стовый язы́к (rússkij žéstovyj jazýk, “Russian Sign Language”): RSL.


Hong Kong Sign Language

A sign language used primarily in Hong Kong.


中國手語

ㄓㄨㄥ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄕㄡˇ ㄩˇ

Чжунго шоуюй

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ kʷɔːk̚³ sɐu̯³⁵ jyː¹³/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ kʷɔːk̚³ sɐu̯³⁵ jyː¹³/

Chinese Sign Language
Chinese Sign Language


Chinese Sign Language

A sign language used primarily in China.