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    template Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered...
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  • The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...
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    spoken languages. A sign language arose among tribes of American Indians in the Great Plains region of North America (see Plains Indian Sign Language) before...
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    The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan tribe who live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically...
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  • Pueblo, New Mexico). Keresan Sign Language developed locally, and is unrelated to the trade language Plains Indian Sign Language. Kelley, Walter & Tony McGregor...
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    OK gesture (redirect from OK sign)
    sign for the number 9 becomes the number 19. In Plains Indian Sign Language, the gesture signifies the number 3 when held a bit lower than the signs used...
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    used by Plains Tribes to refer to the Shoshone. They called the Shoshone "snake" referring to the Shoshone sign in Plains Indian Sign Language for the...
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    described many common features of Plains Indians culture: skin tepees, travois pulled by dogs, Plains Indian Sign Language, and staple foods such as jerky...
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    the Columbian Plateau. The Crow Tribe introduced Plains Sign Talk, which replaced Plateau Sign Language among the eastern nations that used it (the Coeur...
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  • case with Caucasian Sign Language but not Plains Indian Sign Language, which did not involve speech taboo, or deaf sign languages, which are not encodings...
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  • among various Inuit languages, a similar role to that played by Plains Indian Sign Language further south. Inuit Sign Language's origins could be dated...
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    Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Quebec Sign Language (French: Langue des signes québécoise or du Québec, LSQ) is the predominant sign language...
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    cultural area (Algonquian and Iroquoian languages) Plains cultural area (Algonquian, Plains Sign, and Siouan languages) Northwest Plateau cultural area (Ktunaxa...
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    sign-language trade pidgin, known as Plains Indian Sign Language, Plains Standard or Plains Sign Talk, arose among the Native Americans of the plains...
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  • Hand Talk. Also called Prairie Sign Language, Plains Indian Sign Language, or First Nations Sign Language, this language functioned predominantly—and still...
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    of Ghana, Ban Khor Sign Language of Thailand, and Plains Indian Sign Language. Many sign languages are used by small communities; small changes in their...
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    Infobox language is being considered for merging. › American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf...
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    Massachusett Plains Indian Sign Language While most Indigenous languages have adopted the Latin script as the written form of their languages, a few languages have...
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    Iron Eyes Cody (redirect from Crying indian)
    he discussed early Western filmmaker William S. Hart's use of Plains Indian Sign Language.[clarification needed] The Joni Mitchell song "Lakota", from...
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    the Brazos River. By 1840 many plains tribes had made peace with each other and developed Plains Indian Sign Language as a means of communicate with their...
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  • PSD (section Language)
    project for the ancient language isolate Plains Indian Sign Language (ISO 639-3 code: psd) Proto-South Dravidian, unattested language of south India Social...
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  • Ernest Goes to Camp (category 1980s English-language films)
    becomes a valuable addition to the staff, as he is skilled at Plains Indian Sign Language, used by Kikakee's owner, Chief St. Cloud. A small group of juvenile...
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    Southern Plains Cree, Northern Plains Cree may readily substitute ⟨ē⟩ with ⟨ī⟩, while materials accommodating Rocky Cree will indicate the Plains Cree [j]...
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    Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Plains Cree (endonym: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ nēhiyawēwin; alternatively: ᐸᐢᑳᐧᐃᐧᓃᒧᐃᐧᐣ paskwâwinîmowin "language of the...
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    Mountain Chief (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    preservation of Plains Indian Sign Language and consulted with General Hugh L. Scott at the Bureau of American Ethnology on Native American sign language. Mountain...
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    in Kanienʼkéha. The call sign is a reference to the Mohawk word "sekon" (or "she:kon"), which means "hello". A Mohawk language immersion school was established...
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    /kɔ́j–gʷú/ in their language. Some older Kiowas will say Kiowa as KI-wah /ˈkaɪ.wɑː/.[citation needed] In Plains Indian Sign Language, Kiowa is expressed...
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    is an endangered language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family, itself a branch of the Algic language family. Munsee is...
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  • on visually intuitive gestures and mime. A simple sign language called Plains Indian Sign Language was used by indigenous peoples of the Americas. Gestuno...
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    Abenaki (redirect from Abenaki Indian)
    American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 137. Cited in Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The...
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