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 recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...

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...

the Columbian Plateau. The Crow Nation introduced Plains Sign Talk, which replaced Plateau Sign Language among the eastern nations that used it (the Coeur...

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...

Pueblo, New Mexico). Keresan Sign Language developed locally, and is unrelated to the trade language Plains Indian Sign Language. Kelley, Walter & Tony McGregor...

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...

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...

The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan tribe who live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically...

form of sign language for trade and communication among various Inuit languages, a similar role to that played by Plains Indian Sign Language further...

cultural area (Algonquian and Iroquoian languages) Plains cultural area (Algonquian, Plains Sign, and Siouan languages) Northwest Plateau cultural area (Ktunaxa...

described many common features of Plains Indians culture: skin tepees, travois pulled by dogs, Plains Indian Sign Language, and staple foods such as jerky...

Quebec Sign Language (French: Langue des signes québécoise or du Québec, LSQ) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities used in francophone...

Plains Cree (endonym: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ nēhiyawēwin; alternatively: ᐸᐢᑳᐧᐃᐧᓃᒧᐃᐧᐣ paskwâwinîmowin "language of the prairie people") is a dialect of the Algonquian...

Hand Talk. Also called Prairie Sign Language, Plains Indian Sign Language, or First Nations Sign Language, this language functioned predominantly—and still...

sign-language trade pidgin, known as Plains Indian Sign Language, Plains Standard or Plains Sign Talk, arose among the Native Americans of the plains...

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...

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...

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...

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...

project for the ancient language isolate Plains Indian Sign Language (ISO 639-3 code: psd) Proto-South Dravidian, unattested language of south India Social...

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...

Southern Plains Cree, Northern Plains Cree may readily substitute ⟨ē⟩ with ⟨ī⟩, while materials accommodating Rocky Cree will indicate the Plains Cree [j]...

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...

he discussed early Western filmmaker William S. Hart's use of Plains Indian Sign Language.[clarification needed] The Joni Mitchell song "Lakota", from...

19th-century Plains Indians. The book was dictated to Marquis by Wooden Leg in Plains Indian Sign Language, their only common language. Marquis gathered...

hearing due to an illness, communicated with the Kiowa using Plains Indian sign language. She lived among the Kiowa for about eleven years, sharing their...

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

/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...

countries may share sign languages, although sometimes under different names (Croatian and Serbian, Indian and Pakistani). Deaf sign languages also arise outside...