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...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

Northern Ireland, alongside British Sign Language (BSL). Irish Sign Language is more closely related to French Sign Language (LSF) than to BSL, though it...

perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...

Sign Language has its roots in British Sign Language (BSL), and may be technically considered a dialect of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language...

in 1575. Descendants of British Sign Language have been used by deaf communities (or at least in classrooms) in former British colonies India, Australia...

including Polish, Punjabi, and Urdu. British Sign Language is sometimes used as well as liturgical and hobby languages such as Latin and a revived form of...

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...

as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-handed such as in British Sign Language. Fingerspelling...

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...

though there are some signs which indicate contact with British Sign Language (Malta was a British colony until 1964). These signs are relatively few, however...

historical contact with the British in Shanghai. A feature of both CSL and British Sign Language is the use in many related signs of the thumb for a positive...

part of British Sign Language." As of March 2004[update] the British Government recognises only British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language as the official...

British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language (BANZSL, /ˈbænzəl/), or the British Sign Language (BSL) family, is a language family or grouping encompassing...

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...

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...

The British Sign Language Act 2022 (c. 34) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which legally recognises British Sign Language (BSL) as a...

South African Sign Language (SASL, Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal) is the primary sign language used by deaf people in South Africa. The South African...

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...

2004) is a British deaf actor who appeared in the 2019 film The Parts You Lose alongside Aaron Paul. Murphy is fluent in British Sign Language. Danny Murphy...

British English (abbreviations: BrE, en-GB, and BE) is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...

Canada's Atlantic provinces. Maritime Sign Language is descended from British Sign Language through the convergence of deaf communities from the Northeastern...

contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between deaf individuals using a sign language and hearing...

Ireland. Dutch Sign Language was introduced to the school along with British Sign Language which developed into Gambian Sign Language, incorporating some...

Finnish Sign Language (Finnish: suomalainen viittomakieli) is the sign language most commonly used in Finland. There are 3,000 (2012 estimate) Finnish...

legal recognition of signed languages differs widely. In some jurisdictions (countries, states, provinces or regions), a signed language is recognised as...

Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language...

with other village sign languages into British Sign Language. According to Peter Webster Jackson (2001), OKSL may have been the language used by a deaf boy...

The British Sign Language Act 2015 (asp 11) is an act of the Scottish Parliament, which legally recognises British Sign Language (BSL) as a language of...

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...