The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...

originating in the Philippines. Like other sign languages, FSL is a unique language with its own grammar, syntax and morphology; it is not based on and...

Old French Sign Language (French: Vieille langue des signes française, often abbreviated as VLSF) was the language of the deaf community in 18th-century...

Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Spanish: Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a form of sign language developed by deaf children in several schools in Nicaragua...

influence on the vocabulary and grammar of sign languages. Loan translations are common, such as the American Sign Language signs BOY and FRIEND, forming a...

British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While...

synthesized signs with French grammar. With consistent use among the community these two sources evolved into the French Sign Language. American Sign Language is...

American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). Local varieties...

grammar and lexicon. Sign languages are not universal and are usually not mutually intelligible, although there are similarities among different sign...

International Sign (IS) is a pidgin sign language which is used in a variety of different contexts, particularly as an international auxiliary language at meetings...

of five components of a sign, along with handshape (DEZ), location (TAB), movement (SIG), and nonmanual features. American Sign Language grammar v t e...

been compiled; grammar has not been addressed, so the result cannot be considered a language. Unlike spoken Arabic, Arabic sign languages (ArSLs) are not...

Japanese Sign Language (日本手話, nihon-shuwa), also known by the acronym JSL, is the dominant sign language in Japan and is a complete natural language, distinct...

in Chinese scripts. American Sign Language grammar Southern Athabaskan grammar: Classificatory verbs Noun class Analytic language Determiner (linguistics)...

Sign Language (IPSL) is the predominant sign language in the subcontinent of South Asia, used by at least 15 million deaf signers. As with many sign languages...

Windows, ISO-8859, and Macintosh families of encodings. Handshape American Sign Language grammar List of Egyptian hieroglyphs#H "H" Oxford English Dictionary...

interpolate the grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages. Unlike the sign languages that have...

American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community. Literary genres...

Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL) and...

manual sign system created in 1945, based on the morphemes of English words. SEE-II models much of its sign vocabulary from American Sign Language (ASL)...

Maritime Sign Language (MSL; French: Langue des signes maritime) is a sign language used in Canada's Atlantic provinces. Maritime Sign Language is descended...

new students. Namibian Sign has been influenced by both American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language. Namibian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed...

require the parent to learn the grammar of a sign language. Baby signs are usually gestures or signs taken from the sign language community and modified to...

Zealand Sign Language or NZSL (Māori: te reo Turi) is the main language of the deaf community in New Zealand. It became an official language of New Zealand...

of American Sign Language at home, so such data must come from other sources. While modern estimates indicate that American Sign Language was signed by...

Coppola, Marie (July 2001). "Children Creating Language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language Acquired a Spatial Grammar". Psychological Science. 12 (4): 323–328....

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) is a village sign language used by about 150 deaf and many hearing members of the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in the...

Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its vocabulary...

Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to, yet dissimilar from, those of oral languages...