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99 relations: Afrikaans, American English, American Sign Language, Amharic, Arab sign-language family, Arabic, Australian Aboriginal sign languages, Australian English, Bede, Benedictines, British English, British Sign Language, Central Australia, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Chinese Sign Language, Consonant, Constructed language, Contact sign, Cued speech, Danish language, Deaf culture, Deaf education, Deafblindness, Dialect, Dutch language, English language, Fingerspelling, Finnish language, French language, Function word, Georg Forchhammer, German language, Grammar, Hearing aid, Hebrew language, Hiberno-English, Hindustani language, Indian Signing System, Indonesian language, Irish Sign Language, ISO 639-2, Israeli Sign Language, Italian language, Jabbar Baghtcheban, Japanese language, Kenyan English, Language interpretation, Languages of India, Latin script, Legal recognition of sign languages, ... Expand index (49 more) »
- Education for the deaf
- Reordered languages
- Signed oral languages
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American Sign Language
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 Canada.
See Manually coded language and American Sign Language
Amharic
Amharic (or; Amarəñña) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.
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Arab sign-language family
The Arab sign-language family is a family of sign languages spread across the Arab Middle East.
See Manually coded language and Arab sign-language family
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Australian Aboriginal sign languages
Many Australian Aboriginal cultures have or traditionally had a manually coded language, a signed counterpart of their oral language.
See Manually coded language and Australian Aboriginal sign languages
Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia.
See Manually coded language and Australian English
Bede
Bede (Bēda; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.
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Benedictines
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.
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British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
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British Sign Language
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.
See Manually coded language and British Sign Language
Central Australia
Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia.
See Manually coded language and Central Australia
Charles-Michel de l'Épée
Charles-Michel de l'Épée (24 November 1712 – 23 December 1789) was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf".
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Chinese Sign Language
Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS) is the official sign language of China.
See Manually coded language and Chinese Sign Language
Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
See Manually coded language and Consonant
Constructed language
A constructed language (shortened to conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised for a work of fiction.
See Manually coded language and Constructed language
Contact sign
A 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 individuals using an oral language (or the written or manually coded form of the oral language).
See Manually coded language and Contact sign
Cued speech
Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. Manually coded language and Cued speech are education for the deaf.
See Manually coded language and Cued speech
Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
See Manually coded language and Danish language
Deaf culture
Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.
See Manually coded language and Deaf culture
Deaf education
Deaf education is the education of students with any degree of hearing loss or deafness. Manually coded language and deaf education are education for the deaf.
See Manually coded language and Deaf education
Deafblindness
Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful hearing and little or no useful sight.
See Manually coded language and Deafblindness
Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
See Manually coded language and Dialect
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. Manually coded language and Fingerspelling are education for the deaf.
See Manually coded language and Fingerspelling
Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Function word
In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.
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Georg Forchhammer
Johannes Georg Forchhammer (22 May 1861 – 23 July 1938) was a Danish educator of the deaf, who was director of several deaf schools in Nyborg and Fredericia from 1891 to 1926.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Grammar
In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.
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Hearing aid
A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss.
See Manually coded language and Hearing aid
Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
See Manually coded language and Hebrew language
Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to Ireland, here including the whole island: both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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Indian Signing System
The Indian Signing System or Indian Sign System (ISS) is a convention for manually coded language used in India. Manually coded language and Indian Signing System are signed oral languages.
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Indonesian language
Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia.
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Irish Sign Language
Irish Sign Language (ISL, Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland.
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ISO 639-2
ISO 639-2:1998, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code, is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages.
See Manually coded language and ISO 639-2
Israeli Sign Language
Israeli Sign Language, also known as Shassi or ISL, is the most commonly used sign language by the Deaf community of Israel.
See Manually coded language and Israeli Sign Language
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Jabbar Baghtcheban
Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh (میرزا جبار عسگرزاده) famously known as Jabbar Baghcheban (جبار باغچهبان) was an Iranian inventor.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Kenyan English
Kenyan English is a local dialect of the English language spoken by several communities and individuals in Kenya, and among some Kenyan expatriates in other countries.
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Language interpretation
Interpreting is a translational activity in which one produces a first and final target-language output on the basis of a one-time exposure to an expression in a source language.
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Languages of India
Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Legal recognition of sign languages
The legal recognition of signed languages differs widely.
See Manually coded language and Legal recognition of sign languages
Lexicon
A lexicon (plural: lexicons, rarely lexica) is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical).
See Manually coded language and Lexicon
Lip reading
Lip reading, also known as speechreading, is a technique of understanding a limited range of speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue without sound. Manually coded language and lip reading are education for the deaf.
See Manually coded language and Lip reading
List of sign languages
There are perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today.
See Manually coded language and List of sign languages
Makaton
Makaton is a communication tool with speech, signs, and symbols to enable people with disabilities or learning disabilities to communicate.
See Manually coded language and Makaton
Malay language
Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Manually coded English
Manually Coded English (MCE) is an umbrella term referring to a number of invented manual codes intended to visually represent the exact grammar and morphology of spoken English. Manually coded language and Manually coded English are Reordered languages and signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Manually coded English
Manually coded language in South Africa
In South Africa, manually coded language is used in education, as a bridge between South African Sign Language (SASL) and the eleven official oral languages of the country. Manually coded language and manually coded language in South Africa are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Manually coded language in South Africa
Manually Coded Malay
Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia (KTBM), or Manually Coded Malay, is a signed form of the Malay language recognized by the government in Malaysia and the Malaysian Ministry of Education. Manually coded language and Manually Coded Malay are signed oral languages.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic device or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.
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Monastic sign languages
Monastic sign languages have been used in Europe from at least the 10th century by Christian monks, and some, such as Cistercian and Trappist sign, are still in use today—not only in Europe, but also in Japan, China and the US.
See Manually coded language and Monastic sign languages
Nepali language
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia.
See Manually coded language and Nepali language
Northern Ireland Sign Language
Northern Ireland Sign language (NISL) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Northern Ireland.
See Manually coded language and Northern Ireland Sign Language
Old French Sign Language
Old French Sign Language (Vieille langue des signes française, often abbreviated as VLSF) was the language of the deaf community in 18th-century Paris at the time of the establishment of the first deaf schools.
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Oralism
Oralism is the education of deaf students through oral language by using lip reading, speech, and mimicking the mouth shapes and breathing patterns of speech. Manually coded language and Oralism are education for the deaf.
See Manually coded language and Oralism
Paget Gorman Sign System
The Paget Gorman Sign System, also known as Paget Gorman Signed Speech (PGSS) or Paget Gorman Systematic Sign Language is a manually coded form of the English language, designed to be used with children with speech or communication difficulties. Manually coded language and Paget Gorman Sign System are education for the deaf and signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Paget Gorman Sign System
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
See Manually coded language and Persian language
Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
See Manually coded language and Phoneme
Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
See Manually coded language and Polish language
Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
See Manually coded language and Portuguese language
Rochester School for the Deaf
Rochester School for the Deaf (RSD) is a private, tuition-free school for deaf and hard of hearing students to attend in Rochester, New York.
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
See Manually coded language and Russian language
Sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Manually coded language and sign language are education for the deaf.
See Manually coded language and Sign language
Sign Language System
Sign Language System, also known as Signed Language or Signed Polish, is a manually coded form of Polish that uses the signs of Polish Sign Language. Manually coded language and sign Language System are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Sign Language System
Signed Dutch
Nederlands met Gebaren (NmG), or Signed Dutch, is a manually coded form of Dutch, using the signs of Dutch Sign Language, that is used for pedagogical purposes in the Netherlands. Manually coded language and Signed Dutch are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signed Dutch
Signed French
Signed French is any of at least three manually coded forms of French that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to French word order or grammar. Manually coded language and Signed French are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signed French
Signed German
In Germany, Signed German, known in German as Lautsprachbegleitende Gebärden or Lautbegleitende Gebärden (LBG, "Speech-accompanying signs"), is a manually coded form of German that uses the signs of German Sign Language. Manually coded language and Signed German are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signed German
Signed Italian
Signed Italian (italiano segnato) and Signed Exact Italian (italiano segnato esatto) are manually coded forms of the Italian language used in Italy. Manually coded language and Signed Italian are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signed Italian
Signed Japanese
Japanese Equivalent Sign Language or Signed Japanese is a signed language that corresponds to Japanese. Manually coded language and signed Japanese are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signed Japanese
Signed Nepali
Signed Nepali or Sign-Supported Nepali, is a means of communication often used by (nominally) signing hearing individuals in their interactions with signing deaf, or by deaf persons who for whatever reason acquired Nepali as their mother tongue and then acquired Nepali Sign Language subsequently, or by deaf persons with people with normal hearing whose signing is judged not to be fully fluent (i.e. Manually coded language and Signed Nepali are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signed Nepali
Signed Spanish
Signed Spanish and Signed Exact Spanish are any of several manually coded forms of Spanish that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to Spanish word order or grammar. Manually coded language and Signed Spanish are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signed Spanish
Signing Exact English
Signing Exact English (SEE-II, sometimes Signed Exact English) is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English language vocabulary and grammar. Manually coded language and Signing Exact English are education for the deaf and signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Signing Exact English
Simultaneous communication
Simultaneous communication, SimCom, or sign supported speech (SSS) is a technique sometimes used by deaf, hard-of-hearing or hearing sign language users in which both a spoken language and a manual variant of that language (such as English and manually coded English) are used simultaneously. Manually coded language and simultaneous communication are education for the deaf.
See Manually coded language and Simultaneous communication
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
See Manually coded language and Singapore
South African English
South African English (SAfE, SAfEn, SAE, en-ZA) is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans.
See Manually coded language and South African English
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
See Manually coded language and Spanish language
Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
See Manually coded language and Swedish language
Tecknad svenska
, or Signed Swedish, is an obsolete manually coded form of Swedish that used signs of Swedish Sign Language for lexical words, supplemented by additional signs for grammatical words and inflectional endings. Manually coded language and Tecknad svenska are signed oral languages.
See Manually coded language and Tecknad svenska
Television studio
A television studio, also called a television production studio, is an installation room in which video productions take place, either for the production of live television and its recording onto video tape or other media such as SSDs, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production.
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Toki Pona
Toki Pona is a philosophical artistic constructed language known for its small vocabulary, simplicity, and ease of acquisition. It was created by Sonja Lang (née Elen Kisa), a Canadian linguist and translator, to simplify her thoughts and communication. The first drafts were published online in 2001, while the complete form was published in the 2014 book Toki Pona: The Language of Good.
See Manually coded language and Toki Pona
Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
See Manually coded language and Tone (linguistics)
Transliteration
Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways, such as Greek →, Cyrillic →, Greek → the digraph, Armenian → or Latin →.
See Manually coded language and Transliteration
Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
See Manually coded language and Urdu
Vow of silence
Although a "vow of silence" is commonly associated with monasticism, no religious order takes such a vow, and even the most austere monastic orders such as the Carthusians have times in their schedule for talking.
See Manually coded language and Vow of silence
Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
See Manually coded language and Vowel
Warlpiri language
The Warlpiri (Warlpiri >) language is spoken by close to 3,000 of the Warlpiri people from the Tanami Desert, northwest of Alice Springs, Central Australia.
See Manually coded language and Warlpiri language
Warlpiri Sign Language
Warlpiri Sign Language, also known as Rdaka-rdaka (lit. hand signs), is a sign language used by the Warlpiri, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia.
See Manually coded language and Warlpiri Sign Language
Xhosa language
Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
See Manually coded language and Xhosa language
See also
Education for the deaf
- Bilingual–bicultural education
- Bimodal bilingualism
- Cued speech
- Deaf education
- Fingerspelling
- History of sign language
- LEAD-K
- Lip reading
- Manualism
- Manually coded language
- Oralism
- Paget Gorman Sign System
- Schools for the deaf
- Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf
- Sign language
- Signing Exact English
- Simultaneous communication
Reordered languages
- Interlinear gloss
- Kanbun
- Manually coded English
- Manually coded language
Signed oral languages
- Indian Signing System
- Manually Coded Malay
- Manually coded English
- Manually coded language
- Manually coded language in South Africa
- Paget Gorman Sign System
- Sign Language System
- Signed Dutch
- Signed French
- Signed German
- Signed Italian
- Signed Japanese
- Signed Nepali
- Signed Spanish
- Signing Exact English
- Tecknad svenska
References
Also known as Manually Coded Languages, Manually coded.

