ASL

American Sign Language
American Sign Language#English


American Sign Language

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


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.


Quebec Sign Language

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


Danish Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Denmark.


Jhankot Sign Language

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


Estonian Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Estonia.


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


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.


Greek Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Greece.


Ecuadorian Sign Language

The sign language used by the deaf community of Ecuador.


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


Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

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


Finnish Sign Language

A variant of sign language commonly used in Finland.


Swiss-German Sign Language

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


Icelandic Sign Language

The sign language of Iceland's deaf community.


Malaysian Sign Language

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


Japanese Sign Language

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


Slovenian Sign Language

A sign language used in Serbia and Slovenia.


Australian Sign Language

Auslan; the sign language of the Australian deaf community.


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


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.


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 17, 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:

American Sign Language
American Sign Language

A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.


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.


Hong Kong Sign Language

A sign language used primarily in Hong Kong.


Chinese Sign Language

A sign language used primarily in China.